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The egg roll is

I look like an egg roll the vaguely Asian looking teenager opposite me (maybe she is a Mixie) in the library said to her friends while she looked at a recent pic perhaps a selfie done of course without a stick on some random Apple iPhone or even better with the better provisioned Samsung Galaxy Note it doesn't really matter but the things kids say when looking at their hands egg roll girl and her friends were intending to do their homework or catch up before catching their bus from St. Pat's Secondary the Alta Vista branch of the public libary was as good a place as any to debrief on the day and all of the interesting things that had just passed before they were forgotten in a tangle of shoes and clothes and quick texts and taller tales and after school snacks and homework and dance class what made my ears perk perturbedly was a reference to training supplied through a career ed class the girls were learning St. J...