Read this excerpt from "Math Curse."I wake up at 7:15. It takes me 10 minutes to get dressed, 15 minutes to eat my breakfast and 1 minute to brush my teeth.

The narrator describes ordinary morning activities using exact amounts of time: 10 minutes to get dressed, 15 minutes to eat, and 1 minute to brush their teeth. This shows that math is already taking over the narrator’s thoughts at the start of the day, emphasizing the feeling of being cursed from the very beginning.

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