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I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many dying near me in the last year. I didn__ feel scared. Icertainly wasn__ brave just now. I thought to myself, We have this villa this grass, we should have laindown together, you in my arms, before we died. I wanted to touch that bone at your neck, collarbone,it__ like a small hard wing under your skin. I wanted to place my fingers against it. I__e always liked fleshthe colour of rivers and rocks or like the brown eye of a Susan, do you know what that flower is? Haveyou seen them? I am so tired, Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye againstyour collarbone I just want to close my eyes without thinking of others, want to find the crook of a treeand climb into it and sleep. What a careful mind! To know which wire to cut. How did you know? Youkept saying I don__ know I don__ know, but you did. Right? Don__ shake, you have to be a still bed forme, let me curl up as if you were a good grandfather I could hug, I love the word __url,_ such a slowword, you can__ rush it...
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I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many dying near me in the last year. I didn__ feel scared. Icertainly wasn__ brave just now. I thought to myself, We have this villa this grass, we should have laindown together, you in my arms, before we died. I wanted to touch that bone at your neck, collarbone,it__ like a small hard wing under your skin. I wanted to place my fingers against it. I__e always liked fleshthe colour of rivers and rocks or like the brown eye of a Susan, do you know what that flower is? Haveyou seen them? I am so tired, Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye againstyour collarbone I just want to close my eyes without thinking of others, want to find the crook of a treeand climb into it and sleep. What a careful mind! To know which wire to cut. How did you know? Youkept saying I don__ know I don__ know, but you did. Right? Don__ shake, you have to be a still bed forme, let me curl up as if you were a good grandfather I could hug, I love the word __url,_ such a slowword, you can__ rush it...

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