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Gothic 3 grey stamina10/17/2023 There is a very old photo of him holding me up like an aeroplane in the Milford Sound, calm blue water enclosed by mountains in the background. My great uncle, a gentle man with a tinkering, technocratic spirit died in the USA. ![]() Rachael’s wedding was upcoming on, but the funerals of family members had now passed. As important dates began to loom – the wedding of a good friend, the funerals of family members – the syntax pessimistically changed to if the border opens, from concrete to speculative. The phrase through repetition had assumed an emotional life of its own, a talismanic incantation when work was too hard or anxiety too much: when the border opens. ![]() But I had started innumerable conversations with four pregnant words: when the border opens. ![]() Life had trudged on with comparative normalcy. ![]() Within 48 hours of that announcement, I and every other Kiwi I knew living in Sydney had booked flights home.
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