bella-oscura

Alone, but alone together We were alone, but we were alone together, two peas sharing the same pod, identical to all who knew us, apart from ourselves, of course.  It was like we were joined at the hip, in the class room, at the dinner table and at church. We would lean on each other and only each other. Leering adults were not to be trusted and the normal individual children of our own age were to be avoided as much as possible. They all wanted to separate us, to stop us being one and a whole; they would very much enjoy splitting us into two broken halves. So we stayed together, alone together throughout our younger years, and we were conte