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Incredible, how a slip could become a freefall and a freefall could become a hell where we lived on as ghosts in a haunted world.
Throughout all of this, my parents did not forget my education. Not a formal education but the education that mattered. What to value. What to hold on to. What to let go of. What to fight for and what to discard. Where the traps were.
I realized right then in that moment that I’d begun to love him. Because he didn’t see the world like I saw the world.
That was the moment I knew I’d decided to trade my safety for something else. That was the moment. And no matter what happened next, I had crossed over into another place, and the question wasn’t who I should trust but who should trust me.
My heart lurched, trapped between hope and despair.
To be dulled to someone else’s perpetual sense of awe was a kind of gift.
that’s incredible,” Borne said, quietly. “That’s amazing. That’s devastating.”
That’s the problem with people who are not human. You can’t tell how badly they’re hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don’t always know how to tell you.
I don’t know, it just happened. Everything everywhere collapsed. We didn’t try hard enough. We were preyed upon. We had no discipline. We didn’t try the right things at the right time. We cared but we didn’t act. Too many people, too little space.
But I couldn’t have been here before, could I?
Was it somehow the future exploiting the past, or the past exploiting the future?
