Ceres As A Heart Attack

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“Those stars, Suzette Kahurangi Bonner, will still be up there in a minute, so could you, please… look at me? Right now? I’m trying to tell you something. It’s important, I swear.” Must have been serious, to warrant using her Maori name, too, Suzi thought. It was funny, her brother’s girlfriend talking to her like this. Bam Temitope was at least five years older than she was, granting a thin icing of mature knowledge to her, but Suzi didn’t think…