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Ants can lift up to fifty times their body weight. Carina had learned that when she was around four or five year old. She used to kneel on the ground near the old orange tree in her nonno’s field and just stare at them, sometimes for hours at a time.
When Andrea died, oddly enough, Carina thought of the ants. He was heavy, when the paramedics lifted him up and into the ambulance. Humans aren’t able to carry as much as ants. Ironically, an average person can barely lift their own weight. Carina would have lifted his. She would’ve carried him on her back, she would’ve done it for hours, long after her legs cramped, long after the voices had quieted down. She would’ve carried him.
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Carina had, until today, thought she wouldn’t be able to carry more than her own body weight, plus Andrea’s. Until, that is, a roof fell on her wife, and she was met with the real possibility that she would have to carry hers, too.or the mandatory maya gets hurt on the job fic. im so sorry.