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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
Split
Splits
Saws
Second
Everything

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I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
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The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
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And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
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I can't shove the dark out of my way.
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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