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"So will I," she proraph of her to carry around in , or a scrap-book of everything we’ve done I will never share an apartment with her in the city I will never knoe are listening to the saether I will not be the person she calls when she’s in trouble She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell I will never be able to keep anything she’s given to me

I watch her as she falls asleep next to me I watch her as she breathes I watch her as the dreams take hold

This memory

I will only have this

I will always have this

He will remember this, too He will feel this He will know it’s been a perfect afternoon, a perfect evening

He ake up next to her, and he will feel lucky

Times moves on The universe stretches out I take a Post-it of a heart andthere

I close oodbye I fall asleep

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I wake up two hours away, in the body of a girl na far away from here It will be a total disruption to her routine, a coo But she has the luxury of time to smooth it out Over the course of her life, this day will be a slight, barely noticeable aberration

But for e of the tide For me, it is the start of a present that has both a past and a future

For the first time in my life, I run