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To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

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I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Cl...more

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

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But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see th...more