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“Hours before I died, my mother hung on the refrigerator a picture that Buckley had drawn. In the drawing a thick blue line separated the air and the ground. In the days that followed I watched my family walk back and forth past that drawing and I became convinced that that thick blue line was a real place— an inbetween, where heavens horizon met Earth’s. I wanted to go there into the cornflower blue of Crayola