The Last Unicorn
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The unicorn touched him a second time, over the heart,
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“I remember you. I remember.”
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but Molly Grue saw their voices thump home into her like arrows, and even more than she wished the unicorn back, she wished that she had not called.
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The king turned and he looked like Haggard.
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As for her, she is a story with no ending, happy or sad.
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“One word might have been enough,”
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“I wish I could see her once more, to tell her all my heart. She will never know what I really meant to say.
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As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn’t say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
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“She touched you twice,” he said in a little while. “The first touch was to bring you to life again, but the second was for you.”
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am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die.
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but I do. I regret.”
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No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy—save one, and I thank you for that, too.
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