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The people we care for aren't always the one we should

Lucy Christopher

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Lucy Christopher
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When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.
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I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.
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I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.
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There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.
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Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.
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The land wants you here. I want you here, you called. Don't you care about that at all?
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I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.
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I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.
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Where are you going? I asked. The middle of nowhere. I thought this was it. Nah. You shook your head. This is just the edge.
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