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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

  • fumi chanцитируетв прошлом году
    So I renamed myself Ari.

    If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

    I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

    I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.
  • fumi chanцитируетв прошлом году
    I liked hearing him laugh. It made things seem normal. A part of me thought things would never be normal again.
  • fumi chanцитируетв прошлом году
    “Your smile is back.” That’s what Dante said.

    “Smiles are like that. They come and go.”
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    He was so perfect in his newly organized room, the western sun streaming in, his face in the light and the book in his hand as if it was meant to be there, in his hands, and only in his hands. I liked his voice as he read the poem as if he had written it
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    Until Dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren’t.
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    That afternoon, I learned two new words. “Inscrutable.” And “friend.”

    Words were different when they lived inside of you.
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    “Someday, I’m going to discover all the secrets of the universe.”
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    And it seemed to me that Dante’s face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.

    Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    I guess I did miss Dante—even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

    Dante.

    For some reason I thought of Ileana.
  • оrtemцитирует2 года назад
    The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time.

    And I think of you.

    Always,

    Dante
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