She ate dry sugary cereal out of her fist. She put her books on the shelf so the spines faced the wall. She carried around her phone bill in her pocket but never paid it. She forgot about the nice clothes she kept under her bed. She cut all the wicks off her sister's candles. She watched vultures fly together over the highway. She always took an envelope from behind a different greeting card. She left her lips chapped in the winter. She used metal forks on her nonstick pans. She kept her plants rootbound in small pots. She dreamed.