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Wishes are made to be broken,” he says, stacking up rotten dust-filled letters beside the trash can. no matter what he says, he was never able to throw them away. just a couple of years’ ago his words would climb up tree trunks and lamp posts instead of tripping and falling like a drunken figure on the rooftop the night before Surely the candles that he keeps lighted up around the house at night have more meaning than this words. but the fact that they still don’t help him see in the dark frightens me; to see him stumbling into a building, to the rooftop. maybe the city lights from the roof would show him the missing step. I really don’t want him to fall.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM UTC
City lights below rooftops
Wishes are made to be broken,” he says, stacking up rotten dust-filled letters beside the trash can. no matter what he says, he was never able to throw them away. just a couple of years’ ago his words would climb up tree trunks and lamp posts instead of tripping and falling like a drunken figure on the rooftop the night before Surely the candles that he keeps lighted up around the house at night have more meaning than this words. but the fact that they still don’t help him see in the dark frightens me; to see him stumbling into a building, to the rooftop. maybe the city lights from the roof would show him the missing step. I really don’t want him to fall.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM UTC
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