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The Wings of the Dove

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“I never told you that, Dad, but I was drunk out of my mind one night, I had just vomited in front of the statue of the Pasquino and couldn't have been more dazed in my life yet here as I leaned against this very wall, I knew, drunk as I was, that this, with Oliver holding me, was my life, that everything that had come beforehand with others was not even a rough sketch or the shadow of a draft of what was happening to me. And now, ten years later, when I look at this wall under this old streetlamp, I am back with him and I swear to you, nothing has changed. In thirty, forty, fifty years I will feel no differently. I have met many women and more men in my life, but what is watermarked on this very wall overshadows everyone I've known. When I come to be here, I can be alone or with people, with you for instance, but I am always with him. If I stood for an hour staring at this wall, I'd be with him for an hour. If I spoke to this wall, it would speak back." "What would it say?" asked Miranda, totally taken in by the thought of Elio and the wall. "What would it say? Simple: 'Look for me, find me.'" "And what do you say?" "I say the same thing. 'Look for me, find me.' And we were both happy. Now you know.”

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“Babe, do you know? Colors… I love them— The whites, the reds, the grays And, oh, the black, you say, You like when my locks blush in your embrace. Colors… I love them From the brown of your eyes To the peace of your skin, The blue of your veins, and the pink of your lips— Your presence is my life's spectrum. Actually, I lied Colors are what I dislike Because, if not yours, I don't yearn for them in my life. You—my spectrum, my delight... Take a breath and smile. For you are the colors of my life, For you are the colors of my life.”

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