“I love swimming"
“I know,” I said.
“I love swimming,” he said again. He was quiet for a little while. And then he said, “I love swimming—and you.”
I didn’t say anything.
“Swimming and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most.”

We laughed and we talked and looked up at the stars.

ari and dante

“we all fight our own private w a r s.”

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“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”

I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us.

“I don’t know,” I said. “Tomorrow.”

The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.