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“Maybe part of it is just wanting my tiny little life to have something of scale. For the stakes to matter.” He paused, then added, “For my having-lived to matter.”
Orkideh smiled, placed her hand on Cyrus’s. It felt cold, dry, like canvas.
“We won’t grow old together, Cyrus. But can’t you feel this mattering? Right now?”

“ Ali did not cry when the plane took off from Tehran, but wept a little, silently, as it landed in Detroit.”