From A Window
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Last published Thu, May 28, 2020
On our fifteenth birthday, Justin Goldwater disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Not completely. Not in the way bubbles or rainwater disappear.
He lingered. I caught snatches of him in restaurants when he wasn't there. I saw him when I squinted too hard or thought too much. He was always at the back of my mind, in the bookstore window. An unscratchable itch. A never-healing scab. He was never really gone. Not for me, anyway.
On our eighteenth birthday, he returned all ash and eternal flame.
For the first time, I let him in.
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