You get a feeling that there’s some dissatisfaction, that here’s something not right, it’s unfocused, and you can’t place it. It’s unsettled and disturbed. She took to the stairs, closing the door. without saying a word, she was there for you, dressed in pink and blue, there for them. Her children had left home. This strange little girl, all alone in the world – all grown and eager never to be alone. Marianne. You liked to play. You played for yourself – you played for the children. You taught strength and lived for the community, but the community overlooked you. (725mg per 100ml of blood) And one day, I reached out and you said your mother was sick. You would tend to the needy like a specialty – it was so heartwarming to see. This tall blonde woman from somewhere overseas;. Always complicated and unsure, but hiding her addiction under a sea of neuroses. The irony of it all. This bag for life. A bag for life? A bag with death, it carried no smell. You couldn’t hear it, you couldn’t see it, and so she made her way that day - onto the common, a sight she’d seen so many times before, A place she cared for. A place where she could wrap fabric around a tree. And that’s where she found her freedom – in that bag. It’s the nature of rehabilitation. You didn’t expect to die – I don’t see how you could have known, but I didn’t – I didn’t realise that you were so alone…and so in need. How can we see? When you’re wrapped up and cloaked in a mask of invincibility. (725mg per 100ml of blood). We didn’t see you for years, we didn’t see you for years. We never heard from you again, there were no responses to emails, telephones, letters, nothing. But I wish you well. You’re the regret from that place we met that I’ll never forget.
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