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Jul 2011
A man follows after his daughter with a video recorder. There is a shadow
lengthening from where she walks. He does the speaking for both of them
while she grows higher and higher in response. She used to stay behind him--

afraid of doors and strangers. Now she walks ahead. And he is delighted.
This name he has kept for an undisclosed star has gone beyond his
grasp, calling for re-naming. He does not understand. Though he has given up
all his old photo albums to purchase this image of her, it will be years

before she will turn from her hunger to inquire about the man. She cannot stop
running. For every picture he gives to her, she will race ahead a hundred feet.
akr
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