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how to create timelessness | Priya Ghose

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On our third date, we had a feeling of timelessness. We were lying on my couch and we couldn’t see anything but the walls, and sunlight streaming through the windows. I was living in a converted apartment that I suspected had once been a church, since pews still snaked around the edge of the living room. The ceilings were low, and we forgot the year for a moment. (2019? 2018? Something like that). When we remembered, we laughed that it could be any year right now. We could be in the 50s, we wouldn’t know.

On our third date, we had a feeling of timelessness. We were lying on my couch and we couldn’t see anything but the walls, and sunlight streaming through the windows. I was living in a converted apartment that I suspected had once been a church, since pews still snaked around the edge of the living room. The ceilings were low, and we forgot the year for a moment. (2019? 2018? Something like that). When we remembered, we laughed that it could be any year right now. We could be in the 50s, we wouldn’t know. Our confusion was enhanced by the song playing in the background. The wistful chorus: It’

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