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  • North & South

    On being lost for words.

    Jul 14, 2019 2 minutes
    michellany by michelle langstone

    MY MOUTH is a foreign country. My lips and tongue are exchange students stumbling over words and up the steps of a train station, blinking in the daylight of another continent. I am attempting to learn phrases in a new language, and my mouth makes shapes I do not recognise.

    I search the internet for someone who can pronounce

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