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        Autumn comes around and that certain aroma begins to pass through the air.  The odor of light, morning dew, freshly fallen on the grass, being disrupted by the cold air of people passing by.  The shade from the trees looms over them, as the leaves fall around them, unnoticed.   Green becomes red and then brown.  The evolution of the new season ends as quickly as it starts. Summer seemed like a minute ago, but now remains another period of time to be remembered.   Slowly, a brown leaf falls on the face of a man, whose skin is dark as the fallen foliage and his eyes open to reveal dark pupils that go on endlessly.  The breath of the

     Distant calls and unanswered prayers are forwarded to an inbox, where they will remain without response.  My echoes are shouted all throughout the day, but they dissipate into faint requests to a closed ear.  I cry and cry and cry, but my tears are met with only my two hands and nothing else.  She could have died much later in life, but the end came sooner than I expected.      Following a typical day, I looked forward to spending an evening with Katherine on our special day of the month, known as: Date Night.  Every third Friday of the month, we have traditionally been reliving our past in the form of a corny