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isolated

My father’s rushing, pumping, thumping blood pulses through my veins. In time with my heart, yet somehow separate.

The strings and speckles of yesterday dance in my peripheral vision and scurry away as I turn my eyes to get a better look.

The tinglely, prickly, tickle of nothing, crawls across my back and down my legs, letting each of its ten thousand legs fall individually onto my skin.

I can feel you peering at me in the darkness. I can see you listening for my voice. I can hear you reaching out to grab my hand.