I received the one thing that all the performance was.

I understand now.

Trying to earn from a distance, not approval.

Like a presence, not a position.

A name being spoken by someone who had been looking for me since before I was looking for anything.

That is what I heard in the silence.

That is what the voice was, not a sound.

A presence already in the room.

A name already known.

A door that had been standing open since before I signed the order, waiting for me to stop filing things and come

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