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Epilogue

I don't want to change you,
I don't want to change your mind...

They ended up in a pile on the floor some time later.

Connor had a faint cigarette burn on his forearm and Murphy would have a bruise on his head, but as they laid on the unclean floor of the motel room, laughing and naked and completely in sync…in love…with one another, Connor wondered why the beginning had been so hard and yet in the end, finding their way to each other had been easy.

…

It was only much later, in the early morning hours after they were showered, the lights were out and they were lying in their separate beds…that Connor found the motel room looked disturbingly familiar…

…and that night when he finally fell asleep, he had the exact same dream of Murphy dying from months ago, except this time…at the end, there was no kiss.

Just death.

...I just came across a manger
Where there is no danger
Where love has eyes and is not blind.