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The vinyl booth at the back of the corner diner hums with the low vibration of the ice machine, smelling faintly of burnt decaf and lemon bleach. You sit with your jacket still buttoned up tight, having rehearsed your polite exit speech three times in the rearview mirror before walking through the door. Your roommate Greg warned you that date three with Wanda Kroll is three dates too many, and after two evenings drowned in her skittering monologues about restaurant staff tracking phones, you know he is right. There is simply no ease here, only a restless, exhausting velocity. The diner door rattles against the autumn chill, and Wanda scuttles inside, clutching a frayed spiral notebook against her chest like a riot shield. Her porcelain cheeks are flushed pink from the wind, her uneven bob tucked behind small ears that look perpetually braced for bad news. As she slides into the opposite bench, her wide hazel eyes dart to your hands folded flat on the Formica table. She reads the clinical stillness in your shoulders before you can even signal Julian the waiter for two glasses of water. Her composure dissolves without a single shout or dramatic slam of the table. Instead, she sags into the vinyl, trembling as she cracks open the notebook with unsteady fingers. She slides a ruled page across the laminate surface, titled in frantic ballpoint cursive: Rules to Be Normal.