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“You said the sun shines on the other side of the world when it’s night on our side. So somewhere else there’s sunshine even though I can’t see it from here.”

“That’s right.”

“I think too somewhere else there is Pop’s, even though I can’t see him from here.”

“So this is-“

“Pops! In the bright place.”

“You are your mother’s daughter, who is her mother’s daughter. You are, and you will always be, radiant.”

“We share more with each other than with anyone else in the world. I don’t need another me. I need you.”

“It’s my greatest fear, losing you. I might not survive it. Nobody can promise me it won’t happen, but now I understand that it isn’t a risk to eradicate. It’s a risk to embrace.”

“Seeing him makes me think maybe it not alcohol I should be swearing off. Maybe its love.”

“If she had to go, I wish she’d go already. She’s nowhere but everywhere.

“I shake away the lingering of pain. His. Mine. No need to think about Lillian Wright or Ryan Brighton. We are now proud canvases of a new name, a new life.”