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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.

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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Flip Magazine Mom Need Page Slap
That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Add Dot Line Question Space Watch
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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Good Mysterious Tent Thinking Writing
I want to be violated by insight.
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Insight Violate Want
But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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All Change Interest Sky Time
It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Excite Fraught Horrible Kind Such Time
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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Idea Mind Quite Side Stretch Trying
I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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Birthday Cake Childhood Complicate Happy Just Load Something Symbolic Tempting
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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Air Careful Concentrate Detail Intimate Mother Palm Same Time

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