As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.
Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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