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We could love, I realized, without the promise of exclusivity that one had been raised on. And there was no shame or guilt in that, it was just the way the human heart was, four-chambered, with an infinite capacity to contain others, more than it could contain itself.
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...what dystopian forces in the universe had conspired to get the two of them, with their destroyed souls, together, in this dance of despair.
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What stung were the tears that dripped unbidden into the ruptured skin. They were salty, a familiar taste of distilled sorrow. When they mixed with blood, they created a potion for grief, that when swallowed, could drown her in a morass of darkness from which it would take her days to emerge.
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There are no ghosts, Pappa said. But Maa always smiled softly when he saidso. There were ghosts, she knew amongst the living and the dead, ghosts of the living and the dead, and often one couldn’t tell the two apart.
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A dark cloud of gloom settled itself on her head and began raining on her day. Her mood went from animated to morose faster than it would get a F1 car to accelerate to full throttle.
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It was a good thing that when it came to married men, she was a girl with a firm moral compass, or else she would have been tempted to make him break his marital promises.
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Daylight always had that ability to make things less fearful, whether it was cuts and bruises or the monsters in the dark corners of the mind.
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Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.
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Heer laughed, a deep, unguarded laugh that rolled over hills, and mountains and skimmed through valleys, as Aisha’s once had. A laugh she had long since forgotten she ever had.
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