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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.

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I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

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Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

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The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

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You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

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One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

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Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

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The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

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There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

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The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

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