WHAT HE ERASED
"You said a false ending is worse than no ending."
She looked at the piece.
"This is different," she said. "This matters more."
"Because of that," he said. "Because it matters more, the open ending is more honest, not less." He looked at the piece. "What does it want to say."
She thought about it.
Really thought, the way she thought when the pencil was in her hand down through the surface of the thing to the actual answer.
"That some things don't resolve," she said. "That the not-resolving is part of what they are." She paused. "That you can carry something that doesn't have an ending and that's alright. That's a complete condition, not a broken one."
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