Forty-Four
One such night, we said, will do to make us not have lived in vain:
but these old words, so many times repeated, surprised us — being true.
The speaker and someone close to them once told themselves that a night like this—still, intimate, sufficient—would be enough to make their lives feel meaningful rather than wasted. Those words were not new; they had been repeated so many times that they seemed worn, almost like an old promise.
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