For my first birthday, my mother gave me a toy phone my father ate in one bite. "It's broken," he said to my mother, swallowing the curling cord. "No tone." I was wiggling on the carpet like a large set of lips. That night, asleep on the couch, his mouth in the clouds, my father started to ring. My mother was too afraid to answer. She planned the atlas and packed the path.

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