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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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이 영상을 통해 말하는 연습을 해야 하는 이유는?

이 영상은 초보자들이 이해하기 쉬운 영어 스토리를 제공하여 영어 회화 연습에 탁월한 기회를 제공합니다. 이야기의 주인공은 자신의 과거와 감정에 대해 이야기하며, 이를 통해 시청자들은 일상 영어 표현과 상황에 대한 깊은 이해를 얻을 수 있습니다. 이러한 맥락에서 이야기를 나누는 것은 실제 대화에서 발생할 수 있는 다양한 감정을 연습하는 데 매우 유용하며, 말하기 능력을 향상시키는 데 큰 도움이 됩니다. 특히, 주인공의 감정적 여정을 통해 학습자는 표현의 깊이를 느끼고 이를 자신의 경험과 연결할 수 있습니다.

문맥에서의 문법 및 표현

영상에서 사용된 중요한 구조 중 몇 가지를 살펴보겠습니다:

  • “I carry a heavy weight.” - 이 표현은 주어와 동사의 간단한 구조를 보여줍니다. ‘carry’ 동사를 통해 현재 진행 중인 감정을 전달하며, ‘heavy weight’라는 구체적인 비유를 사용하여 심리적 부담을 효과적으로 전달합니다.
  • “I have not had a drink in 730 days.” - 여기서는 현재완료 시제를 사용하여 과거의 행동이 현재까지 영향을 미친다는 점을 강하게 나타냅니다. 일상적인 회화에서도 자주 사용되는 형태로, 시청자가 자신의 경험을 이야기할 때 유용하게 활용될 수 있습니다.
  • “It feels like night, even in the middle of the day.” - 비유적 표현을 통해 감정의 깊이를 전달합니다. 이러한 표현들은 영어 회화에서 감정을 더 풍부하게 표현할 수 있는 방법입니다.

일반적인 발음 함정

영상에서 주의해야 할 발음 몇 가지를 살펴보겠습니다:

  • "carry" - 이 단어는 ‘kæri’와 같이 발음되어야 합니다. 자주 잘못 발음하여 ‘kæri’ 대신 ‘kerry’와 같이 발음되기 쉽습니다.
  • "weight" - 발음은 ‘weɪt’로, ‘w’ 사운드와 ‘ɛ’ 또는 ‘e’ 사운드의 구별에 유의해야 합니다.
  • "memory" - 이 단어의 경우, ‘meməri’로 발음됩니다. 강세 위치를 주의하여 올바른 발음을 연습하세요.

이러한 발음 연습은 영어 발음 교정의 중요한 부분으로, shadow speak이나 shadowspeak 기법을 통해 효과적으로 개선할 수 있습니다. 이런 방법으로 연습하면 더욱 자연스럽고 정확한 발음을 할 수 있습니다.

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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