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“It had been your shame all along and, wishing to rid yourself of it, you had looked for its reflection in me.”

“I remember everything you said out loud. It’s my own words I didn’t hear. When I talked they echoed round my skull, or down the line, but didn’t stick. As I pushed them out I couldn’t hear myself speak. I wonder what I said to you. Type, at least, had memory. Give me the cold keys of my aluminum laptop and I’ll play them like a Belleville piano.”

“We met wherever there was WiFi, which is almost everywhere nowadays, so that when you left, there was never a space from which you could be erased, tidied over. There was never a place where you weren’t, a place from which you could properly be missed.”