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Afterlife

I was convinced it would work this time. Why, simply because I believed what she said. Clearing away all the things, I found another note she wrote:

    I want to love you every day and every night
    and treat you right.
    Is this love I am feeling?
    Yes, I know now.
    I threw my coins on your table.
    We'll be together with a roof
    right over our heads
    and share the same shelter.
  
She wrote that in the beginning of our affair. She gambled too. We both lost, apparently.

A few days after she left, I called her. "How are you?" She sounded like a plant. Hibernating, sheltered in the milieu she had tried to escape. I doubt whether I will ever see her again.


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