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Keeping Watch
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Keeping Watch —So the soul had known it all along, the soul knew when it was taken: first it filled with light and then it went sideways, through boxes of radiance; you wanted her to look your way but she couldn't; for the bride can't just stop being the bride once the forward exit has begun, going backward would have hurt too much. So you had to What. Choose whether to call out as she passed by. The choice was simply whether to live in 'memory' and time or outside— 42 ...