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Long Division
one
Between two
bedrooms nine
people seven
too young to
hold still Two
wanting everything
to hold still
two
We were of eleven
minds as if the two
who didn’t survive
continued
to make their
feelings known
three
We are viewed as both
an argument against
and an argument for
four
We were never one
five
Can you say
which holds more hope?
The family 
ing or
the family 
ing?
six
There is a photo of us
in which
snow is falling
With it, the sky
seven
We are only very rarely all
in the same room
eight
If each finger touches
a different surface which
do you feel?
nine
The thumb serves a function
distinct from the rest
ten
He was always
leaving She left
once
and never again
eleven
The country
divided the family divided I
divided 
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