I held a girl during her own apocolypse. She saw the world on fire, the brimstone, the plauges, the doom. Wet aching sobs and wet over-due confessions. I held her while her face contorted with self-dsigust and fear. Her head bent, spine arching up towards heaven as I traced it as delicately as I said, "everything will be alright, I promise." I
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