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    “Wanting something means acknowledging it can be taken away, but if Neil doesn’t exist, then there’s no harm in admitting Andrew wants more. That he wants anything Neil would be willing to give him, that he wants him to stay.

    “I wish you were real,” Andrew says, because why not? Because if Neil isn’t real then the words mean nothing.

    Neil takes a breath, and Andrew can hear the smile in it before he sees it. “I am real,” he says, like it’s not even a question.

    Andrew can’t help but stare at him. At the way he exists so easily in a world that, by all accounts, does not include him.

    He shakes his head once. No, he thinks to himself, you’re not.

     

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    Andrew is convinced the man he met on a rooftop two years ago isn’t real.
    Neil may be a bit confused, but he's pretty sure he's not a ghost.

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