Close Calls

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This is the way your voice sounds just as the last word escapes. You left about five voice mails, and they all felt the same, differing in pauses, your voice speeding up, the way your breathing sounds masked.
This is the bend in the road, this is the turn that was made too fast. The nanosecond just preventing your crash.  It's the realization that you could have flown through the windshield.

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