Something happened to the soul of Mira’s father the moment the life left her, a reawakening to what he had known in the moment of his own death; that everything on this earth is forgiven. He was not a bad father, and she was not a bad child, and there could be no badness between two such people who loved each other as they did. They had loved each other and so all was forgiven, for this draft is not just a place of blessings where things are supposed to go well. Getting through it is enough, and they did. They got through their entire lives to death. And the final moments are the true ones,
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