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Linden Grace, do you remember back in kindergarten when we told and shared our fears? How we'll overcome them and what will we use against them?

You brought a flashlight because you were afraid of the dark.

But I know something that you don't know about yourself. You never knew that you were your own illumination, that you're just waiting to light up the whole city with your eyes.

I'm still waiting for you to shine your light in my own darkness. Please.

It's just a little more until--

                                                  - c.

                         / folded within the pages
                           of her english textbook /