Her neighbors began to notice. The old man downstairs, Mr. Kwan, left a pot of chrysanthemums by her door. The teenager across the hall, Marcus, asked if she could teach him to sew a button. She couldn’t, really, but they learned together, laughing when the thread tangled.
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