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Epilogue: A Short Story

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ALLY Epilogue As we stand hand in hand, it takes me a second to realize Jack has tears streaming down his face, and a second more to realize I do too. There has to be a word to describe this moment. A bis philosophical word that could tell a person the 101 emotions running through my veins right now. It’s on the tip of my tongue, so close that I can taste it. This moment, right here, right now, is one of my conscience awakening. MY life has never been put into a perspective like this; it feels like my soul has lived a complete lifetime and has finally reached its own conclusion. This brings peace to me like no other. These new people around me, these friends I have made has made this moment so surreal for me. His most what the definition of high on life means. I suppose I‘m too young to really know the true …show more content…

“Teach me to fly.” JACK Epilogue When Ally hugs me goodbye, she smells like fresh air. Like that summer night, in the middle of a field with the person you love, and the air settles into a silence that smells like something you can only experience once in a lifetime. I guess you could describe her a my personal eclipse, the memories I made of her will be mine and mine alone for the rest of my lifetime and that’s good enough for me. The ride back home is different than the one up. Freeing and constraining at the same time. I know that I’ll go home and wish for any escape which used to be my treehouse but now, even in my head, it’s too small to find me now. It only has enough space for the narrow-minded, insecure boy I used to let myself be. I suppose I could find a field now, a place with enough space for my thoughts. I realize now they shouldn't ever be confined to a bow of my own creation, only a fool would do that to themselves. From now on I know that to grow all I need is a space to

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