Day 96: Eli and Anne

Eli tried hard. Really hard. Anne was impervious. Or, was she? Today's 100-word story.

96: Eli and Anne

- You matter, Anne. Our child – he? she? -- will matter more to you, to me, than any of the Postinos or the lunatics who would eradicate them. 

- Eli, I just cannot. I will not. 

- What?

- I will not stay here, I will not let our child become a resident, a native-born citizen of -- here. I’m leaving, with Postino. 

- What do you mean, with Postino. 

- On the same plane, Eli. That’s all. 

- I don’t know when I’ll make it back. 

- I know. 

- Or, if I’ll make it back. 

- I know. 

- To see you, again. 

- I know. 

- To see our child. 

- I know.

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