From: ‘Velveteen’:
“…With that secret suspicion present in all children, I believed the thing I loved was alive.
I thought that if I kissed Ricky's eyes enough times, it might shake him from slumber. That he might wake and witness the breathing world…
But miracles are a funny, fickle business. They tip over without warning. The boy at the end of the road lived through winter, but his sister did not…”
— Nov 06, 2025 12:54PM
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