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I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out
and i breathe in;

"I'm afraid of losing you."

Clare smiles.
"How could you lose me? I'm not going anywhere."
"I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependable-ness and you will leave me."
"But I never want to leave you."
Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up.
"I won't ever leave you," she says.
"Even though you're always leaving me."
"But I never want to leave you."

-Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife