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A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.

There was nothing but the nothingness of life moving on with a shuffle.

It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors—an expert at being left behind.