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All of his energy was taken up in trying to cope with the excitement, the heightened awareness of living in the present moment.

I used to be dark. I was in a dark place. The monochrome world, entirely devoid of the colors he was now experiencing, had had a calmness that was beautiful in its own way, but it wasn’t somewhere he could go back to. It seemed the happiness that had enabled him to feel this quiet peace was now lost to him forever. And yet he found himself unable to think of this as a loss.

This was the body of a beautiful young woman, conveniently an object of desire, and yet it was a body from which all desire had been eliminated.

In the five years we’d been married this was the first time I’d had to go to work without her handing me my things and seeing me off.
“You’re insane! You’ve completely lost it!”

I could have reached out to her, and my hand would have encountered her warm skin. But for some reason I found myself unable to touch her. I didn’t even want to reach out to her with words.