So Close and Yet So Far
Madison Ketcham
People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.
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A flute player steals a million dollars worth of dead birds.
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The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.
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