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The details you tried to unsee that told a more accurate story.
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.
deep down, the ghost didn’t really want to die—just maybe come right up to the edge, so that the entire spectrum of colors would click back into place behind her eyes.
Borne was gripped by the false power of remorse, which makes you think that by the strength of your convictions, your emotions, you can make everything right even when you can’t.
Apparently we’d been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.
Lapsing into being mere employee once again, as if a place made the man instead of the man his place.
The things we say to each other, thinking they are so important to say, and yet later regret, that become a part of you no matter how hard you push them away, even as you can’t stop thinking about them.
We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.
