Music fell between the grooves in our teeth. We drove for what felt like hours on an endless strip of pavement, the moon bleeding in the shadow of 5:00am sun. Your voice is more coarse than it usually is, Lucia whispered just after Amen. The night before, we spent hours of you teaching me — well, you were really my moral support — holding up flash cards…
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