(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")+(transition: "dissolve")[It was an uncomfortably warm winter evening when you took the two of us to that spot along the wetlands.
You'd spent the entire walk complaining of rocks in your shoes. We spent the entire walk watching the birds and the bugs.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[You handed me a small, green fishing rod with air-rotted fishing wire and told me to try my best or else we'd all go hungry.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[The two of us didn't care for fishing much, but we tried our best.
We didn't want to go hungry.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[I was the first to catch anything, to all of our shock, and you beamed with delight as you smacked the fish's head against the edge of the small wooden pier.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[It was so small that the shock of the force near tore it to pieces.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")['Poor thing', she said.
[['Dinner']], you said.
☻](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")+(transition: "dissolve")[Your body was cold.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[So cold, I could hardly believe it had ever been warm.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[Are you colder still, where you lay now?
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[I hope so.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[I hope that you are rotting away.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[That you are eaten by the fish you used to hunt.
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(align:"=><=")+(click-replace: "☻")+(transition: "dissolve")[That you know how despised you are.
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