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They breathe only through their left nostrils, and in their spare time, they balance cinder blocks on their cocks. Such performances are said to be reminiscent of the seal acts at Sea World in Aurora, Ohio. What happens to the women of Om? Women whose perfect silence is unpetaled by a tiny scrap of sound?

Woe is me. For too many days, Om is all I have known. Om is all I can think. Already my breasts are rising like the heads of seals beneath my blouse and growing stiff with excitement. Just the other morning my cousin showed me her saline breasts.

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She breathes in to the count of ten and exhales slowly to the count of twenty. Next she counts to fifty. Then one hundred. She tries to blow out the flames one by one. Nights she runs into the streets like a human torch, crying out when she can not sleep. Days she visits therapists who prescribe pills.