From xing@icanect.net Sun Oct 06 14:37:35 1996
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days......

Rating: PG, no swearing, sex, violence, or anything offensive.

Warning: If you have not seen the Season 4 premiere, donšt read!

Summary: Mulder thoughts after the encounter with his sister.....

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feedback, please send to <xing@icanect.net> And now back to the story in progress....

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So Close.....
 by: Keri Givens



Išve come so close. So close to finding the truth, to finding the one thing Išve been 
searching for my entire life it seems. In my heart I wanted to believe you were safe, that I 
would find you again.

I have been so many places and done so many things, hopping desperately that one path 
would lead me to you. There were so many barriers, so many things they threw in my 
way, and somehow..... somehow I overcame them. Succeeded at times when even I 
thought I would fail.

And then, I found it - the one trail that I was sure would lead me to the truth, to you. I 
followed it, recklessly perhaps. I couldnšt let barriers hold me back this time, not when I 
knew that I was so close.

You were just as I remembered you. I hurried to you, my feet never touched the ground, 
I was overjoyed.  I had reached my goal.

I didnšt heed his voice, I didnšt comprehend the words until ... I saw it in your eyes.

ŗWhy doesnšt she recognize me?˛ my heart cried out.

A drone. Those hideous words echoed in my mind. It couldnšt be true. I searched that 
sweet familiar face for a sign, anything that would prove those words to be lies.

The truth is painful.

I came so far - so far and so close. Was it only to fail again?

I have seen the faint glimmer of truth. The barriers may be harder for me to overcome, 
and the path may be harder to find, but my determination is stronger.

I am so close.

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