I tried to imagine the phrases only you would say, but could only hear them falling from someone else’s lips. I tried to imagine the stories you would tell me, but your laugh collapsed under the weight of this grief. I remember the words you uttered, but I don’t remember the voice that said them. I remember you would call me sugar, but I can’t remember exactly how the r melted when it met the air. I remember how you’d tell me be careful, but I am forgetting how your accent cocooned the warning around my ears. It’s strange how I cannot remember your voice, but if I heard it, I would immediately
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