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" promise me you'll always remember me," he says.

i say, "don't make me promise that."
he looks up, hurt.

"people only ask you to remember them if they're planning to leave," i tell him. "if you're planning to leave, please don't ask me to remember it."

   - S.Z. // excerpt from a book i'll never write #241

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