School was a gauntlet of humiliations. His desk, a custom-built industrial steel table, still groaned when he leaned on it. He had to enter classrooms sideways. When the teacher called his name for attendance, the soft, “H-here,” was lost in the vast cavern of his own chest, followed by the rustle of twenty students craning their necks.
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Haruki wanted to confess. He had written a letter, in his tiny, neat handwriting, on a piece of normal-sized paper. It looked like a postage stamp in his hand. He decided to leave it on her desk after school. School was a gauntlet of humiliations