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...their... I was the possession of my obsession.

I both mattered and did not matter.

Rather, the facets of my existence mattered, but my perspective did not. I would close my eyes and run my hands over my face, my fingers skirting over each imperfection,

repulsed by it all, intent on fixing each aspect, all of them ultimately immutable.

I remembered the day the foundation of that obsession cracked.

It didn't come tumbling down, but it was the first fissure that would eventually lead to its destruction.

My aunt and I sat on her porch.

She lived near the mountains, and I was always glad to see her.

She was far older than my parents, an age where the veins stood out in her hands, and her

spectacles hung on a chain.

"'Dearest,' she said.

She always called me dearest.

Yes, auntie.

"'Dearest.

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