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The winter I leave him, I ask my parents to consider me their oldest son. To bend the rules. I could be a little tree, late to flourish, focused on my underground career.
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It was not a question of not having the language for it— having two, in fact. The walking towards it, and then the walking away. How that felt, all the green
May all living things
be happy one day.
But let them take their time.
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