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We pulled off the road, a highway dating to 14 years before my birth, to switch drivers. A swap of the two front occupants put me | |
behind the wheel, and I rested my foot on the clutch for a moment as I fastened myself in and finally pulled away. It would now be | |
my responsibility to convey us, 2 women, a man and a dog, toward the city. | |
I noticed that he quickly nodded off beside me; Meanwhile, she and I chatted. We'd just met a few days prior. I knew little of her | |
background, just as the converse was true. But we'd been sharing experiences since the beginning of the conference that had ended | |
the previous day, and now finally had the opportunity to speak of things with less urgency. | |
I couldn't tell you how we got where we did. Something she asked led me where I went. Having gone there, and with the benefit of | |
the preoccupation of three freeway lanes staring me in the face, I told her a 42 year story I knew well. It was a story I'd had | |
ample time to reflect on and share, but this was perhaps the first time I'd gone through and told all of it together. | |
Unbeknownst to me, a woman 900 miles away stood in front of a lecture hall at the time telling her story. She finished about the | |
same time I pulled off in the town at the gateway to a subaqueous tube named for the 16th president, and as I fished out my phone to | |
see what was happening in the world, I noticed the kudos starting. After we crossed the river and unloaded, I spent 30 minutes glued | |
to my screen, listening and watching. The story I heard shared many details to a degree that was uncanny. I'd never met her, but I | |
hope to, someday. | |
I was not alone. I am not alone. I will never be alone. The thing is, there were times when I felt it, because I had no way to know | |
any better. And I have no way to figure out who else is feeling it, but I desperately wish I could tell them that they are not alone, | |
either. | |
❤, Daria | |
https://youtu.be/aQnQgOR2mms?t=17470 |
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