I wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories, ... But this burst of speed comes from an older adrenaline, some limbic other. Not courage, but a deeper terror. I don't want to be left alone. And I am ready to defend Ossie against whatever monster I encounter, ... and save her for myself.
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We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
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i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.
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I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
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