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lese majesty

The father was incensed by his teenage daughter's lese majesty—

her miserable whining had grown truly insufferable.

she rolled her eyes, smirked, and, fixing him with an insolent stare, muttered, "As if."

she had turned adolescent sloth and torpor into an art form.

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