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To have tasted a dream...to have known in an adult worn heart what had just been inside a certain quaint little head...to have closed a tight fist over what meant life...to have to learn to unlove what could never be hated... to have slipped across edges of a secret with a human need...too late to take back a secret that had fallen too near to be not known....to see it all again henceforth only in the inner eye...all that remained was an emptiness of a heart that had kind of closed in forever.