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I went to this acupuncturist who used to be a physicist before she switched careers. She's out there, firmly, and doesn't apologize for it. She tells her clients to revisit a time when they felt safe or alive or happy or loved or all of the above. She says in physics that time and space are negotiable. She says something to the effect that time's ours to play with, should we want to. So there in her office with a few needles in my hands and feet I went back to Saratoga Springs in the fall when Anne was alive and walked beside me in deliberate small steps and told me she felt life was benevolent, if you let it be, if you could surrender to what it gave rather than suffer over what it didn't. And then I went back to one of the first nights you slept here, at my place, in my bed, and how I got the giggles and then you did and we couldn't stop laughing for what seemed like hours, but I'm not sure how long. I went back to your body there and mine, the heat of us laughing, and how surprised we were, how we couldn't stop. Thank you for that. For staying, for laughing, for your feet through the iron bars of my bed, for stopping time.
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