They are beautiful earrings, silver spirals hanging from my earlobes, long and delicate strands of metal. They nearly brush against the tops of my shoulders. I both love them and hate them.<\/p>\n
Nikola is gone.<\/p>\n
He says he will return, and these earrings are his promise of that.<\/p>\n
Promises are nothing new to me. They are handed out like fortune cookies after dinner. They are frequently as disposable as the papers within.<\/p>\n
He has a plane ride to Europe.<\/p>\n
I have beautiful and perhaps ultimately disposable earrings.<\/p>\n
Something so small balanced against something so large.<\/p>\n
Weightless.<\/p>\n
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