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I want to enter a long dream in which I can walk as far as my legs can carry me, to go on a long trip, with snow or rain or sunshine

She runs. She laughs. I do not hear her, I only see her smile.

I smile as I stand here looking outside the window of the hotel room, smile at the sensation of living life that it gives me. The sensation of freedom.