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Baroque
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One hundred years of solitude.
"There is always something left to love."
I think about wanting you back.
I think of not wanting you back.
And all the things in between.
Sometimes I miss you.
Sometimes I don't.
Like my weakness, I go back to remembering you all the time.
So I built myself an imaginary friend, wandered through all its dark shelves.
I made it home.
I brought genie out of its bottle.
I didn't want a wish because you are a dangerous thing to have.
I've been there before, and no
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...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the surface on which they rested was a slab of polished pink marble, topping a white and gilt dressing table-cum-sculpture, done up in the new, hyper-Baroque style named Rococo. It was adorned, for example, with several cherubs, bows drawn, eyes asquint, as they drew beads on unseen targets, butt cheeks po
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