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ali

05-23-2013, 10:12 PM

...aylin...

crying isn't secret, it's the art of how we grieve

It's a gentle touch, his muzzle against my cheek. I find myself closing my eyes and leaning into the stranger's touch, but at once I freeze and withdraw from his touch. As much as I long to feel the embrace of another and feel wanted, needed, I do not feel it wise to allow myself to be carried away by such feelings. I don't think he realizes just how much that helped, though. Little broken pieces of myself have started stitching themselves back together just because a stranger was thoughtful enough to offer a kind touch.

"Roanne?" And suddenly the stranger is a stranger no more. "I've heard about you." Finally, I really look at the stranger and see him. He's just as mother described. Tall and dark as the night, strong and sturdy with a quiet confidence about him that could soothe even the wildest of beasts. I only know what my mother has told me about him but I already feel as if I know him and he's a friend.

"My mother loved you." I whispered even if there wasn't anyone else there to hear. I found that in my mother's tales of her past she had loved a lot and she had lost a lot. Roanne, she'd said, had been one of her first friends and one of her longest lasting when no one else would stand beside her. She'd loved him with everything she had because that was who she was and how she loved everyone that was important to her. "She misses you." I wonder if she misses me as much as she misses Roanne.

"Aylin. My name is Aylin." The next smile I offer is more real than the strained first one, but it falters just as quickly as the first. "I'm glad to finally meet you."

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