![]() That’s the whole point, after all: There’s no going back.” She walks straight and quickly, turns a corner, and is gone. Then she makes this fluttering gesture with her hand and calls out, “Never mind.” This time when she turns around she doesn’t waver. Let’s go back.Įven from a distance of fifty feet, I can see Hana hesitating. ![]() I spin around, heart leaping, thinking maybe she’ll be the one to say it. “Lena!” she calls out to me, just before I reach the gate. ![]() Suddenly the edges of the world are blurring and there’s a sharp pain in my throat, so I turn around and walk quickly toward the house. I get the urge to memorize her walk-to imprint her in my brain somehow, just as she is-but as I’m watching her waver in and out of the fierce sunlight, her silhouette gets confused with another one in my head, a shadow weaving in and out of darkness, about to walk off the cliff, and I don’t know who I’m looking at anymore. ![]()
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