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[55] Boring Meeting

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Clara did not acknowledge the principal.

Not even a glance, not even the slightest flicker of recognition that might have suggested she had heard him, seen him, or considered him worthy of even a fragment of her attention.

And the deliberate absence of that acknowledgment was louder than any insult could have been, sharper than any spoken dismissal.

Because it reduced him not to an adversary, not even to an inconvenience, but to nothing at all, something so insignificant that he did not ev
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