She was a messiah. A beautiful angel plucking me out of the gutter. Creation of Adam shit. Then a crew member said, “That’s a wrap.” The cameras stopped rolling. Chloe stepped away from me. Her eyes flickered, brightness displaced by an eerie distance. “Bye, Julie.” Then she was gone. In her wake, she left me with a renovated home (featuring the landlord special: crumbling foundation, painted-over appliances, mushrooms sprouting from dank corners) and a YouTube video the next week: “Finding My Long-Lost Twin and Buying Her a House #EMOTIONAL.” It hit ten million views in two days. People
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