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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.
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And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
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