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Train Ticket (5)

Writer: Coert Erasmus
Coert Erasmus
3 days ago
1 min read

“Where to?” the man at the counter asks.

A haunting question indeed.

If I buy the ticket for this train, I cannot come back. 

The money in my wallet can only carry me one way.

But if I decide to stay, I will stay the same.

“Where to?” has never been so hard to answer.

 


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