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- June 7
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- But when I think of that place in the woods now, I don’t see it as it was that night. I see it as a ruin, a hole in the ground, with nothing left to it anymore save the stones of the foundation.
- The way Mary and I saw it last month, when after so many years I finally went back to Burkittsville to make my peace with the past.
- The past, though, wasn’t through with me just yet.
- The next morning, when we woke up in the Holiday Inn in Frederick, Mary was already at the kitchen table, with the sleeve of her sweater rolled up.
- “I must have brushed against poison ivy, or sumac, or something like that,” she said. “Look at this rash.”
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- Mary seems to be living in her bed: it’s all she can do to get up and go to the bathroom. She has fallen into a state of apathy about her condition, no longer amused at being the Illustrated Woman, as she once called herself, whose fate is writ large on her skin.
- I, on the other hand, seem to be living in the past.
- Blair Witch: The Secret Confessions of Rustin Parr, chapter 11
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