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"And then I realized that I'd been searching for the wrong person.
I looked into the eyes of the oldest man in the world for a boy who fell in love when he was ten."
Leopold Gursky
"So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age of when she loved you most.
...
It was true. She was familiar. And yet. She didn't look very much like my Alma, now that I really looked."
- Both found people they weren't looking for, without even knowing they were the people they were to be looking for -
Leopold Gursky.
She put one arm around me, I tapped her twice. She put both arms around me and hugged me. I stopped tapping.
Alma, I said
She said, Yes.
Alma, I said again.
She said, Yes.
Alma, I said.
She tapped me twice.
A Beautiful Ending to a Beautiful Book.
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