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i suppose it depends on what that "one thing" was that got said, really...
it's possible that this one thing was the kind of one thing that could take down an entire edifice--a friendship, a relationship. such things exist (that sort of one thing) and situations present themselves and so on. and reciprocally, there is the possibility of letting go of those effects, forgiving, deciding to forgive.
but i dont know why this sort of thing can happen. all i know is that it can happen. and depending on which end of this communicative circuit you occupy, that of transmitter or receiver of the word-bomb, you may or may not have options beyond wonderment. or you might.
like most things, this is hard to know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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