I’m saying there’s a language for this that I never quite understood but for you showing it to me. I hope whatever path you take leads you back to the arms of Tribe, but even if it never does, you’ve found a way to make a world again. You’ve found a way to give someone like me a place to land this time, and it wasn’t just in a high school gym, but also in the open mouth of a window in a summer when it was too hot to breathe. Lucy Pearl was a feeling, Ali. I imagine you first as the angel that held me close and asked me to read when I could not see the words for myself. I imagine you first as
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