The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn__ even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he__ carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn__ know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she__ gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he__ chosen for her was an idiot.
The Buddha of Suburbia
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He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn__ even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he__ carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn__ know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she__ gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he__ chosen for her was an idiot.
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