And he smiled.

“Shall I read something?”

“Yes...now!”

Turning the pages so he could hear them I searched for a favorite passage.

I read as slowly and as distinctly as possible, allowing each word time.

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Cercolas, mother, Aesop, Phaon...gone. When shall I go?

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I have been unable to write for days. I have nothing to say...there is only emptiness.

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