Untracked Connections

If the pieces are your stories, Laura told Sadie as she gathered her scraps, then the connections are the quilted patterns holding them together.

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Connections hold more than portents
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It's Marriage

Marriages hold and bind us in legal ties—of convenience, of property, of minds, of what matters most. This most formal of connections can never be truly dissevered.

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It's Family

Family bonds— of love, of hatred, of anger, of hope, or of despair, stem from before our births and linger far beyond our deaths.

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It's Hatred

The shades of hatred cover a complex range: from what we do not comprehend to what we fear as other, from the abyss of despair to the pinnacle of greed.

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It's Friends

A shared interest. A smile. An understanding. A word. Someone to share both sorrow and joy. To be there.

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It's Business

Here connections are based on trust, trust is based on understanding, and understanding is based on our motives. There must be trade, and with trade comes profits.

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It's Complicated

Not everything is simple.

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It’s a secret tearing at the soul

There are things we do not speak about that strike at the very root of our existence.

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It’s a secret growing in the soul

There are things we do not speak about that create the core of our being.

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It's outside the wall

It is what we hold outside of ourselves that may prove to be the strongest connection of all.

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