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The voice i had heard was an old woman, hunched over and covered in a shawl so I couldn’t see her face. She stuck a long, gnarled finger into the direction of the dark alley and motions for me to follow her before she hobbles of into the shadows.

For a second i thought of holding back, finding the nearest business and asking for a phone to call a cab home, but a nagging feeling tugged at my heartstrings. For some reason, I needed to go with the old woman. So surely, yet reluctantly, I followed her.

She leads me onward for what seems to be hours. There is nothing but silence between us, except for the few times when she guides me around corners with breathy whispers of “quick child, the truth awaits.”

After walking for what appears to be much farther then an old woman of her composure can walk, I stop. There are a million questions burning in my mind. Before I can open my mouth to ask any of them i feel a hand on my wrist. The woman had somehow moved from the five feet in front of me she was before to right beside me. She lifted her head so under the shawl I could see one of her glowing blue eyes. No words needed to be said. I understood.

I continued to follow the woman

A little longer and I see a bright light in the distance. A sudden feeling of excitement hits me. I can already feel it.

We walk into a clearing and the smell of an assortment of delicious foods that will last me forever.

The clearing is full of people like me, all young and forever enjoying the endless youth that this magical clearing brings, the old woman who then was straggling behind me is now at my side again, but this time as a beautiful young woman with braided dark hair and startling blue eyes.

She waves her hand toward all of the beautiful things in the clearing and tells me, “this is the truth my child. Reality. Welcome to the realm of the ever lasting.”

I look around some more, noticing that the clearing seems to be lighten by sunshine, gazing upward I notice a single, red and yellow sign. Dennys . at that moment I knew. this is the real dennys experience.

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