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“All around us, birds woke up the sky.”
“Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.”
“Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.”
“And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.”
“I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.”
“But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.”
“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the ot...”
