Why didn’t you ever tell me?” I just shake my head. There always seemed to be so many good reasons—excellent reasons, in fact—but sitting here across from him, I can’t think of a single one. I look around. The Earth is still intact. I’m still alive. The floor didn’t open up and swallow me whole. I haven’t spontaneously combusted. I don’t know what I thought would happen if I told, if I let that that one word exist, but I didn’t expect nothing to happen. Everything is just as it was. No giant meteors collided with the planet and completely wiped out the entire human race. Dishes still clang in
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