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I stand in front of the old house.
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I stand in front of the old house.
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My legs do not move.
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My hands are cold.
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The house looks old and broken.
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The walls are gray like ash.
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I smell something burnt.
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Maybe it is only my memory.
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Maybe it is only my mind.
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My name is Jackie.
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I am a woman who carries a heavy weight.
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I carry it every day.
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I carry it alone.
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I look at the front door.
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It is old and rusted.
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Perry used to open that door for me.
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He always did.
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He was gentle like that.
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He was always gentle with me.
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Perry is my brother.
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He was my brother.
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He is not here now.
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He is gone because of me.
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I have not had a drink in 730 days.
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I count every day.
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Same morning.
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Same silence.
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Same number.
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730. It sounds like a big number,
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but it does not feel like freedom.
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Not yet.
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I walk inside.
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The floor makes a loud sound under my feet.
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The air is thick with dust.
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I cough into my arm.
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The inside of the house is dark.
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It feels like night, even in the middle of the day.
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I walk slowly.
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I look at everything.
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I remember everything.
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And I remember nothing.
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Both things are true at the same time.
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I find the living room.
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I sit on the floor.
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The walls are green and old.
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The paint is falling off in small pieces.
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I look at the wall in front of me.
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and I see it.
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A fireplace.
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Something moves in my chest.
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Something warm.
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I remember sitting here as a child.
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Perry was next to me.
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We ate marshmallows.
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We watched movies.
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We drank hot apple cider that our mother made.
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She called it Apple Schnapple.
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We laughed at that name.
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We always laughed.
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I talked to the empty room.
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Perry, do you remember this?
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He does not answer.
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He never answers now.
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But I remember his laugh.
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I remember his face.
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He had a small scar on his cheek.
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That scar came from me,
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from the night I was drunk and drove my car into a tree.
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Perry was in the car.
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He screamed at me to stop.
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I did not stop.
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I could not hear him.
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The drink made me deaf.
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Perry died that night.
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I did not.
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I sit with that truth every day.
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Same morning, same guilt, same name inside my chest.
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Perry.
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Perry.
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Perry.
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I look at the fireplace again,
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and then something strange happens.
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I look harder and the fireplace is not there.
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Only a wall.
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A plain green wall with old paint.
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There was never a fireplace.
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I made it.
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Inside my mind, I made a good memory to cover a bad one.
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I close my eyes.
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I see my mother.
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She walks into the living room.
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She has a cigarette in her mouth.
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She has a bruise on her face.
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She holds two warm cups.
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She smiles at us, but the smile is not real.
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Behind her, my father sits at the table.
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His head is down.
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A bottle is next to him.
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Empty.
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I open my eyes.
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My hands are shaking.
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I used to say my parents died and that is why I drank.
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I told myself that story for many years.
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It was easier.
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It felt cleaner.
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But it was not true.
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The truth is harder.
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The truth is that my father gave me my first drink.
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I was only a child.
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He called it our special time.
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I wanted him to love me.
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So I drank.
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I drank, and then I could not stop.
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My mother saw it.
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She looked away.
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She always looked away.
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I did not start drinking because they died.
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I started before that.
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I just didn't want to see it.
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A lot of pain lives inside a house like this.
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A lot of silence.
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A lot of looks that said nothing and everything.
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A lot of mornings with empty bottles on the table.
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I stand up.
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My knees are weak.
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I walk up the old stairs.
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I do not know why.
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My feet just go.
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At the top of the stairs, I see a room.
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Light comes through the door in one thin line.
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I walk towards it.
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I go inside.
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The room is empty, but I feel Perry here.
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I feel his warmth.
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I feel his laugh.
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I feel his arms around me,
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the way they always were when I cried.
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And then I hear it.
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His voice.
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Just five words.
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Jackie, stop the fucking car.
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I fall to my knees.
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I do not run this time.
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I do not look away.
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I stay on the floor.
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I breathe.
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I let the memory come.
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All of it.
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The car.
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The tree.
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The sound.
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The silence after.
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I killed my brother.
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I am the woman who did that.
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I live with it every day.
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Same morning, same truth, same weight.
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I open my eyes.
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The room around me is white, clean, bright.
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I am not in the old house anymore.
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I am in the hospital.
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I pull the small wires off my face and my arms.
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My gown is wet.
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My heart beats fast.
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Dr. Lascaux sits across the room.
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He is my doctor.
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He has been my doctor since the accident.
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He is a quiet man with kind eyes.
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He is patient with me even when I am not patient with myself.
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He was Perry inside my mind, inside the simulation.
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Every time we do this, he becomes Perry.
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He walks like Perry.
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He talks like Perry.
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He gives me what Perry used to give me.
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Kindness without words.
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Presence without questions.
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But he is not Perry, and I know that.
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I always know that.
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I do not want to do it again, I say.
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My voice is dry and rough.
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Dr. Lasko does not speak right away.
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He walks to my bed.
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He sits next to me.
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He waits.
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You did well today, he says.
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He says it slowly.
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He means it.
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I did not feel brave, I tell him.
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Brave people never do, he says.
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I look at him.
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I see Perry's face for one second, just one.
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Then it goes away, and Dr. Lascaux is just Dr. Lascaux again.
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A man in a white coat,
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a man who comes back every day,
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who sits next to me,
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who does not give up on me even when I give up on myself.
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If you keep doing the work,
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he says, you may leave this place sooner.
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I am in a hospital and in a prison at the same time.
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After the accident, after Perry died, the law came.
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I am here now because of what I did,
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because of what I chose,
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because of the drink that I chose over everything.
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Over Perry.
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Over my own life.
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I will keep going, I say.
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My voice is small, but it is real.
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He takes my hand.
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He does not say anything.
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He just holds it.
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That is enough.
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That is more than enough.
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Later, I lie in my bed.
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The ceiling is white.
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The light is soft now.
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The room is quiet.
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I close my eyes.
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I think about Perry.
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not the Perry from the simulation,
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the real one, the Perry who laughed with a big full laugh,
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the Perry who always opened the door for me,
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who held me when I was afraid,
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who never left me even when I gave him every reason to go.
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He gave me the bigger piece always,
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of food, of patience, of love.
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I could not give him the same,
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but I can give something now.
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I can give honesty.
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I can stop hiding.
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I can look at the real memories,
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not the soft ones I invented.
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I can sit with the hard truth and not pour a drink to make it go away.
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730 days, same morning, same number,
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same woman, but maybe slowly a different woman too.
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I do not know what freedom looks like.
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I do not know if I will feel it one day,
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but I know this.
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I will show up tomorrow and the day after and the day after that,
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not for anyone else, for me.
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Because I am still here and being here is something.
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Maybe it is everything.
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I am Jackie.
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I am broken in some places and whole in others.
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I carry a grief that has no end.
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I carry a guilt that does not go away.
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I carry the name of my brother in my chest like a stone.
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But I am still here.
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I still breathe.
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I still fight.
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Same morning, same woman.
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But this time, I choose to stay.
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コンテキストと背景
この物語は、主人公ジャッキーの内面的な葛藤と過去の記憶を描いています。彼女は古い家の前に立ち、身体を動かせず、冷たい手を抱えている状態で始まります。物語は失った兄ペリーとの関係や、730日間アルコールを断っていることを通じて、彼女の心の重荷を表現しています。こうした背景は、英語学習者にとって、感情的な内容を理解するための優れた材料になります。
日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ
- Maybe it is only my memory.（たぶんそれは私の記憶だけです。）
- The air is thick with dust.（空気はほこりで厚いです。）
- I have not had a drink in 730 days.（私は730日間飲酒していません。）
- It feels like night, even in the middle of the day.（昼間でも、まるで夜のように感じます。）
- Something warm moves in my chest.（胸の中で何か温かいものが動きます。）
ステップバイステップのシャドーイングガイド
この動画の難易度を克服するために、以下のステップを実行してください。
- 視聴：
最初に、動画を通して見て、物語の流れを把握しましょう。
- 理解：
主要なフレーズや単語が出てきたら、その意味を理解することに集中してください。特に感情表現に注目しましょう。
- 音声模倣：
音声を一時停止し、各フレーズを自分の声で繰り返します。ジャッキーの感情を表現するために声のトーンを意識しましょう。
- シャドーイング：
速度を少し遅めに設定して、シャドースピーチを行います。リスニングとスピーキングのスキルを同時に鍛えることができます。
- 反復練習：
これを数回繰り返し、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻して挑みましょう。IELTS スピーキング対策にも効果的です。
感情を込めたリピートが、英語の発音を良くするのに役立ちます。特に「shadowspeaks」と呼ばれる手法を取り入れ、自分自身の声を録音し、聞いてみることをお勧めします。これにより、自分の発音をより深く理解し向上させることができるでしょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。