I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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