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You were really glad she laughed. A lot of the things you say you hardly think about, and people just end up getting offended. Not this time. With a sigh of relief, John drank in the other’s smile, chuckling weakly back.

i don’t know! i mean, it looks hard. plus, i would’ve thought you’d have memorized everything there was to read at this point.

You emit another laugh as you say that, giving her a playful nudge on the shoulder to make sure she knows you were joking.

oh yeah! i know what you’re talking about. i see those all the time. i feel them too, i guess. though i don’t really know what they’re saying. it could be calling me a dorkbutt and i’d have no idea. it’s confusing but they should definitely have it in more places. not that i don’t like reading to you or anything!

And since when has difficulty prevented me from learning things, Джон, мой хороший друг?  I did have some books yet to read; I wanted to pace my reading over my entire lifetime.

In any case, it took about six months of intensive to learning to be able to read again at something approaching the level I used to.

You shrug a little bit.

You’d be amazed at how inaccessible some places are.  The labels for rooms are there just often enough that I can come to rely on them, and absent just enough to make life difficult on occasion.