The Orange Bucket Hat Manifesto
The orange bucket hat sat on my desk like a radioactive blob. Mom had dropped it off that morning with her usual 'try something new, Maya' speech, along with a bottle of vitamin D ...
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The orange bucket hat sat on my desk like a radioactive blob. Mom had dropped it off that morning with her usual 'try something new, Maya' speech, along with a bottle of vitamin D ...
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Maya stood by the edge of the pool, clutching her dad's old baseball hat like it was a shield. The brim pulled low, she could barely see the way Tyler's friends kept glancing at he...
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