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Bk 2 Ch 9: Kimia
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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Hey, you’re Kimia, right?” I glanced over to the speaker. He was sitting next to me in Pre-Calculus. He was sort of cute. He had dark brown hair that was very curly. He didn’t have any product in it, so it was very fluffy. He didn’t have the muscles of a football player, and he smelled like basketballs and cut grass.
“Yeah. Why?” I asked him.
He shrugged. “Just wondering.” He paused for a minute, and I thought he would go back to ignoring me. “I’m Zack, by the way.”
“Okay,” I said.
Another minute later, “Hey, Kimia. What do you call a wizard who is good at calculus?”
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