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And then the day would have come at last: Eli, standing in the shallow ocean water off the spit staring East to where the future would arrive, when Denise would be torn from his life again. A few moments of still ocean. A gull crossing the sky. Then it would have come, in waves like light, to cover him. -ASG

You were wrong, the pictures would admonish, there was nothing there to love. -ASG

'He had always thought they were attached in some great, parasitic way that would allow no separation; but in the end he felt they were simply two great ships, lashed together to wait out the high waves of the ocean storm. It was simply a chore, and no terrible one, to cut the ropes at dawn.' -ASG 😭

You can either look around and long for the people who have left you, he thought, or you can forget them; you can turn to face the ones who stayed. ASG

Around them, the fog, that flock of doves, fluttered in the feeling Twilight. -ASG

'The cure for gravity is time.' -ASG 😭