Once upon a time there lived a very old man in a very old house, tucked away in a very old town. One day, the old man’s daughter came to visit and ask him one last question before he went away.
“Where is mother?”
“You come here to ask me that? She is here. The bones you use to walk, the lungs you use to breath, the eyes you see with, the words you speak with. You both are one in the same.”
“Yes, but where is her body?”
He spoke nothing, just looked at the floorboards beneath her feet.
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