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“In third grade, our art teacher told us we were to do self-portraits. We were across the room from each other and without so much as sharing a glance, I drew him, and he me. Some-times, now, it feels like that.”

this book is eating at my soul. i miss my brother.

“Because I can see people's souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire.”