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You type back with your thumbs, slow and careful: you too. don’t forget me.

The Razr vibrates.

“Phoenix is a desert,” you say, like it’s an accusation. Stay -2005-

Later, you go up to your room. You have a blue portable CD player, and you put on the mix CD he made you last summer. Track four is “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Track seven is “Since U Been Gone.” You lie on your bed and hold the folded paper over your heart. You type back with your thumbs, slow and careful: you too

“Yeah. That’s the point.” He kicks a loose pebble. It skitters under the U-Haul. “No memories there.” You type back with your thumbs