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Do you ever wonder where words come from, Zoe?
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Or where they might be going?
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Take, for instance, rest—
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Or dwell, which used to mean to lead astray.
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Even the simplest words keep secrets.
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In ancient Greece a scruple was a pebble stuck inside your shoe.
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Oh Zoe.
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Oh Zoe, what does it mean to have already done something you know you’d never do?
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It’s so hard for me now to understand myself then—
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—when we got home from the funeral, it seemed like the right thing to do—
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Do you ever get our memories mixed up, Zoe?
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Because for me they bleed over sometimes—
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To worry used to mean to strangle.