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“Come back inside,” he said. He wore a knit cap, a bomber jacket. When
“Come back inside,” he said. He wore a knit cap, a bomber jacket. When
he spoke, his breath huffed, white and disarmingly tender in the space be- tween us. He turned to me.
he spoke, his breath huffed, white and disarmingly tender in the space be- tween us. He turned to me.
“What are you telling her?” he said.
“We’ve got our time machine in that horse barn,” Carol said. “We’re going
to disappear and live our lives over again. You’re going to see me one day and think you know me, but I will be someone else—not Carol,” she said.
Paul closed his eyes. He swayed a little there in the road, just as drunk as we were.
“Fuck it,” he said. “Freeze to death.”
He turned away from her and she made a sharp, animal-like sound. “I’m leaving,” she said. Her voice echoed in the empty the street. “I mean it.”




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