The Light Between Oceans
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Read between July 2 - July 5, 2018
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Gradually, lives wove together once again into a practical sort of fabric in which every thread crossed and recrossed the others through school and work and marriage, embroidering connections invisible to those not from the town.
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Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond with a speed only nature could engineer.
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The storms gradually follow winter to another corner of the earth, and summer comes, bearing a paler blue sky, a sharper gold sun.
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History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
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He struggles to make sense of it—all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.
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Dull aches of loss reawakened, as raw longing was soothed by that balm so long exhausted—hope.