"Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken."

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you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

— Joyce Carol Oates