I used to be able to count to a thousand and walk backwards with my eyes closed and these were to my little kid self great feats of skill but then later in life I resigned myself to the fact that I would never feel close to how alive those small things had made me feel but then there was her and when she left deep purple hickeys up the length of my arm nine in total one for every letter of her name they were only on the surface of my skin but I felt alive all the way down to my bones