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When she wants to scream and deny his words, when she wants to just grab his thin shoulders and shake him until he understands, the words spilling out of her mouth break apart after one another and crumble under the but's and yet's because she forgot the also's.
Returned is a backwards word. First of all, "turn" is to go back, to go the other direction. And then "return" gives you "re", which is to do again. So return is flipping around, but then doing it again, which just turns you the right way around. And just to make things more convoluted, the definition of return is to give back. Putting all of these sneaky twists together, we return (hah) a word that means going back but then going back again, and finally giving the double going back.
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