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church, she went and stood next to an old woman, and hugged her. There was an open casket at the front of the church, and Zamis went up and looked in and saw that the body was the body of the young man that it had been, but the young man was no longer young. He was old, and had lived his whole life. Then Zamis turned and looked at the two women in the front row, the girl with the dark hair comforting her grandmother, who had been the young man's girl with the dark hair when he was a young man. Suddenly Zamis's memories of its lifetime spent as a man with the only woman he ever loved returned to it, and it understood that the girl with the dark hair had not taken anything from the young man. Rather, she had given him everything.