Chrysanthemums. They must’ve really hated those.

No, not a sitcom, a play. A play, Sam, for the audience in front of us. We don’t have the budget, time, or creative ingenuity to start a sitcom.

I thought there would’ve been more. You used to write me pages. It was so confusing, not hearing a word for hours, and then seeing one of your letters on the kitchen table.

He found it in the center of the forest, leading to somewhere else, to something else. He built a house beside it, he built a town.

I suddenly felt a little more certain that this man was a magician.

This isn’t the first time I’ve thought about this. It’s the fourth. No, the fifth. Yes, the fifth.

PREPARATION ENSURES SAFETY! IN AND OUT!

For a moment, when did it get this bad? Floated among her thoughts, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on what “it” was and resorted to giving him a warm smile which he returned somewhat diminished.

Three and Four gave up the day you left. Some part of me is sure you’ll come back.

I just paint over the mistakes, the inaccuracies, the impossibilities.

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