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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 31 www.whatisyourname.you Episode 1 The popped collar of her jacket and the hat pulled down over her sunglasses were making her sweat. It was actually rather hot for November, and people were staring at her suspiciously given that she was dressed like that. She couldn’t afford to be recognized by anyone. She just had to know. She had to know why he went into that apartment building every day. For a week she had seen him enter there and then disappear. Once she had waited around, but he had not come out and she knew he did not live there. She wanted to know everything about him. Up to that moment, she had discovered only where he went to school and where he lived but she still didn’t know his name. Yes, she and her girlfriends had done a lot of hypothesizing, but they never seemed to figure anything out. She began to remember the last time they met at her house. They were seated on the floor in her room and the girls were making fun of her because she always had a dreamy expression on her face and couldn’t do anything apart from talk about him. Tina and Armelinda were mocking her, and Armelinda could not understand why she didn’t just ask him his bloody name. “It’s simple. You go and say, ‘Hi, I’m Rosaria and you?’” “What? No way!” she said blushing. “Look, I feel sick only imagining it.” There was no way she could do that. She had tried once, but as soon as she had come up to him, her throat went dry, she started to stammer, and the volume of the voice that came out of her must have