Blood, dripping from a bruised and cut eyelid, slowly swelling.
"She hit me."
Who did?
"A woman. In the checkout line."
Someone you know?
"No. She didn't say a word. She just hit me."
On the sidewalk outside the neighborhood Safeway.
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