May 04, 2007 08:15
"Is that all there is?"
"Yes, dear."
"Please go home. Could you at least do that for me?"
"I should hope as much."
"Thank you."
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To an annual affair it brings me back down to the ground and level-headed nonetheless. A gust of uncertainty befouls the calm of the eve and I don't know which direction to turn any more. All about the evening roams and the people drift so certainly to their destinations without the fellowship of their comrades not two steps in each direction though each and every person is a million light years away: never to come in contact with one another.