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It's amazing what a difference a shower can make.
Oh, she's still very much got the chickenpox. She's still running a low-grade fever (but that is, at least, preferable to the dangerously high one she had when are arrived), she's still vaguely tired, she's still contagious, and she is thoroughly itchy.
But she's clean, her hair is combed out and neatly braided, her nails have been cut as short as she could manage, and she's dressed in real (if very loose) clothes instead of pajamas. She's starting to feel properly human again.
She's even actually hungry for the first time in about four days.
Oh, she's still very much got the chickenpox. She's still running a low-grade fever (but that is, at least, preferable to the dangerously high one she had when are arrived), she's still vaguely tired, she's still contagious, and she is thoroughly itchy.
But she's clean, her hair is combed out and neatly braided, her nails have been cut as short as she could manage, and she's dressed in real (if very loose) clothes instead of pajamas. She's starting to feel properly human again.
She's even actually hungry for the first time in about four days.

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"Anything that could reasonably be expected to exist in Canada in 1991."
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OOH, BURN.
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But Meg doesn't know that.
"No.
"If you decide to get me a baseball team, it has to be a bad one."
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Or something less awkward, like a spice rack.