Only of losing you, I wanted to say. Only of a quiet life without your crooked hands in it. Instead I said, "Not while the river remembers us."
"Where did she go?" they asked often, a question stacked on top of other questions—grief, curiosity, the need to fit a story into an explanation. i raf you big sister is a witch new
"You always thought you were in charge," she said, and her eyes—earth and storm—were full of a tenderness that made my jaw unclench. "You built your life like a fortress. Do you remember when you forbade me from climbing the attic, said I'd break something fragile?" Only of losing you, I wanted to say
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