Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.
"All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist.β- Prodigy
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.
And thatβs when I realize that, at the end, weβd all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.
