"What is this misbegotten thing?" he asked.
"It's stillborn and easily disposed," she replied.
"I can't be sure I'll keep my eyes."
"No matter. What's seen you can't unsee."
"At least I won't repeat it."
"Are you sure you can tend another pain?"
"I'll feed it every day, even when the memory fades."
"Absences can outgrow the former presence," she said. "Remember that."
"If I forget, something will remind me."
Something will always remind me.
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