Earlier Lives - Deepstash

Earlier Lives

A couple of years before that they’d been just nobodies:

Jack with blue dreadlocks, wheeling a stroller around Berkeley, a hacker nanny sleeping on couches.

Biz, who was afraid to fly on airplanes, juggling credit cards to pay the rent with fifty thousand dollars in debt.

Ev living in a six-hundred-dollar-a-month garage atop someone’s home, riding a borrowed bicycle to work across dirt roads to a tiny cubicle, where he sat silently each day. All lonely and alone, searching for something. 

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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