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Card #c820IR // #c820Verbatim excerpt
He never saw Molly again.

— Source: Neuromancer (William Gibson)

[Use when]

Use when ending a partnership. Deny the farewell and the absence lands harder.

[Why it matters]

After everything, the partnership dissolves in one flat sentence. No farewell scene, no closure. The human story ends the way the Sprawl ends everything: people just stop being in the same place.

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