I really loved you, you know?

It was… difficult to accept, at first. Not because I didn’t want it to be true, but because it seemed unbelievable that any god could be so perfectly in tune with my heart.

I, of course, was the favored son, being quiet and reserved, and, at all points, deeply engaged with my own loneliness. I had no time for books or television, or any of the escapes and artificial friendships of fiction. No, I was myself, and that was enough. I would spend my days exploring the wide grounds and forests of our estate, finding the hidden corners I thought that none would have found before me – though now, I wonder how many generations of Lukases had exactly those thoughts, in exactly those spots.

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Pub: 10 Oct 2022 04:02 UTC

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