From A Window
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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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