emma and i would listen to that song on repeat. i had the CD and we'd sit in the basement and play with plastic animals. we were really worried about the owl city guy for some reason? on that same album there were a few sad songs. for some reason we got it into our 9-year-old brains that he had a girlfriend who died. looking back, it's kind of funny. i wonder if that was true? 

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and then 8 years later i am sitting on hathaway hill with katherine and noah. long pan shot of the kudzu forest. there were thousands of them that night, blinking and blinking and blinking.