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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.” | |||