If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
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Lauren Wolk
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But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.
All around us, birds woke up the sky.
Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.
I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.
And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.
I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.
Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.