There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
("The Lovely Bones")
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free.
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.
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Our only kiss was like an accident -- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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