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\f0\fs24 From her parents' bedroom, Emma phones Susanna, Mai Lin, and Hannah in succession to build a vetted boy-invitation list that reaches fifteen names\u8212?adding Nate Oliveira, eliminating Chris DeLuca for calling Mai Lin and Emma interchangeable, and flagging Ryan from the swim team for confirmation\u8212?before calculating that her mother's mandate to include all three boy cousins (Devin, Tyler, and cannonball-prone Marcus) will disrupt her intended gender balance of fifteen boys to ten girls, leaving her without a workable counter-argument to raise the guest cap and only the unresolved notation "cousins don't count\u8212?separate category" starred on her notepad.
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