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““She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.””

Colum McCann

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

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“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's there and it's all coming down, covering everything. You're breathing it in. You touch it. You drink it. You eat it. But it's so fine you don't notice it. But you're covered in it. It's everywhere.…

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