He said: "I know what I have given you, but I don't know what you've received." It was like that. She was standing in the bleaching white heat of the mid day and she was looking up at the sun. Behind her and again in front of her were telephone poles stretching out into the foreground in front of her and into the background behind her. She stood on her own shadow as she looked up to me in the window of my room on the second floor. I could smell the grass and I could see her bring her arm up to cover and shade her eyes as she looked up at me. Then, she turned and ran into the field and was gone and I didn't even get to ask her what her name was or where she was going to.

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