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But there is part of you that never forgets the sweet, sweaty way a toddler’s head used to smell after a nap; and how he hesitated quizzically after he dropped something to see if you would mind, because sometimes you were so tired that you did mind and couldn’t quite summon up the energy to hide it.

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And you remember how something in his expression made you laugh involuntarily, even though by this point of the day you just wanted dinnertime to be over already and for this person—much as you loved them—to be asleep and out of your life for a few hours, and you picked the Elmer plate up off the floor and started again.

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I didn’t understand then that it is possible to hanker deeply after something that is neither pretty nor useful, just because of the person who once used it.

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“I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t, because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’

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“He may want you to do something that is, you know, is arguable whether it’s the right path to go, but it’s a very rational approach to it.”

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