Malene Huse Eikrem

Downcast Eyes

She watched him from afar most of her life. Even in the beginning when they were so very close, he still seemed far away, as if from a different world. As children, she saw him as her weird best friend from the house on the hill, who brought a whole loaf of bread to their picnic and drank milk right from the carton, a stranger to the neatly packed lunch her own mum would make for her…

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