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Unlike the Alchemist, she loved this life and this world, and didn’t want to leave it. But
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“The Alchemist told her: ‘In order to make you immortal, I must have your heart for safekeeping.� So she transformed her whole heart into a word she whispered in his ear. His throat moved like he was swallowing it down. Then, he passed her a handful of pebbles and told her to eat them, and she would live forever.�
Lying feels like trying to hold an eel in my stomach: the truth wants to wriggle its way out.
A drop of sweetness mixes into the grief inside me. It’s only a drop in a sea, but in that moment, it feels like everything.
And besides—what do I have to lose, if I’ve already lost everything?
