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- Everything as it was; and everything has changed. - change/perception/reality
- It tastes of importance and of being grown up - maturity/ rites of passage/ loss of innocence
- He was the officer corps in our two-man army.
- No one could smile like that and have secrets from the world. (A Dee)
- Auntie Dee's "unguarded smile"
- Lamorna is the correct scientific description of the bobbly texture of her purse and the shininess of its button - feelings/ sexual maturity/ senses
- He was the leader and I was the led - relationship between S and K
- Once again all I've done is play the loyal disciple
- I piece together a world of sorts from the different densities of blackness, and from a few small sounds.
- You understand that sometimes people find themselves isolated.
- I think you do understand.
- You showed her our things.
- Or is memory being overwritten by hindsight...?
- No, wait. I've got that wrong.
- I see all things I never saw before.
- I feel the awkward twist of my body as I edge my way sideways (not sure if that's exactly right).
- I seem to be trapped between those two smiles.
- ....and rested is how she always seemed.
- He looks straight into my eyes, no longer smiling...
- Something has changed about the perfume of the air.
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