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love songs - by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

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mostly love is about failure, and also dad rock

you can’t see the fireflies but they’re there On Saturday there were fireflies in the park. It was dusk and everything was green, the big buildings sweeping up the corner of the view. Almost everyone else had left the stretch of lawn where I’d been sitting, and the fireflies came out like they had been waiting for the picnickers to vacate their space, little neon green-yellow sparks appearing and disappearing just above the top of the grass. As soon as I thought I knew when to look, they blinked out, and reappeared next where I didn’t expect them. I just stood there, soaking in it. I had a…

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