Quaint Notes on Ruin

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“I bet the two of you could move mountains. I bet you could,” said someone addressing our couplehood.

–And we did move mountains.

And in the process, we made it hard where it could have been soft, and called it ancillary where it was necessary. All of our years together now talk behind our backs, making us out to be avaricious, idiot fools because we did move mountains.

We leveled off some really beautiful mountains, thinking that that would rid us of valleys of misunderstanding. We backfilled emptiness. Topography knows that without mountains, we’d have no valleys. But we called it development; we called it progress.

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