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My Tamagotchi Diary

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My Tamagotchi Diary
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Photograph by Angie Sijun Lou.
In the opening scene of Angie Sijun Lou’s short story, “Bubble,” which appears in our recent Fall issue, no. 257, the narrator goes with her father to a parent-teacher conference—an intervention of sorts, regarding the fact that the unnamed sixth-grader “had spoken fewer than thirty words over the past academic year.” During the conference, as her teacher threatens to hold her back barring better socialization, the girl plays with a Tamagotchi Angel—a high-maintena

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