I need silence.

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When I think of you I think of snow, and placidity and never wanting to leave. I think about your brother's car and I think about the things you said to me. You are the words I can't create, and words no one will ever know.

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We walk forever; time standing still just for us. Running and shouting, we jump to catch immobile snowflakes on our tongues. All we can accomplish is to trip over gravity and fall into snow angels. I tell you that I fear that we may drown in laughter. You close your delicate eyes and tell me that warm scarves are hanging from our necks, that they change colors to match how we feel. A glance down. I feel orange and turquoise plaid and you feel purple stripes. Breath. A breath of frozen air chills my thoughts and when we speak the words freeze in the open air - they shatter around us like dreams of yesterday. When we think back on what we said, all we can hear is the sound of broken dreams underfoot.

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Oh wow! My music just turned off and the sound of a 5th grader playing the violin involuntarily floods my ears.

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