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i’ve done enough in this room, placed enough things, learned enough about it, to have formed this connection i know you’re not real, you’re not living, you’re not sentient, you won’t ever hear this even though i’m saying this inside you right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way this has been the one place i’ve stayed in the longest (without considering my parents’ place) i stayed here for, in total, two years, which isn’t even really that long in the scale of places i’ve stayed in but the fact that it has been that long, and it’s way longer compared to anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i’m gonna miss you, h306 i’m gonna miss east campus, and all of it’s weirdness, all the art painted on its walls all the hidden passages, the memories made by dozens and dozens of people before me in a way it reminds me of suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used before you, all the memories made by people in this s

memorial for a dorm by CJ Q. '23 goodbye east campus (for now) June 6, 2023 in Residential Life i felt the need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen years that this room has lived i’ve only been here to bear witness a small part, only trace a quarter of it i don’t know your full history, but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i’ve done enough in this room, placed enough things, learned enough about

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