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Twisted Memories Baibai [exclusive] Review

The fashion system has been broken for some time, said trend forecaster Li Edelkoort at VOICES 2016. But, it can still regain its cultural cachet, and fix its exploitative practices.
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Twisted Memories Baibai [exclusive] Review

You're gone. But the twist remains.

Baibai. I said it to you once, half-smiling, knowing I'd see you tomorrow. Now I say it to your ghost in a dream where your face is a smudge — a watercolor left out in the rain. twisted memories baibai

Twisted memories: The good parts have thorns. The bad parts have sweetness I don't deserve. And somewhere in between, I keep waving baibai to a version of you that only lives in the crooked hallways of my head. You're gone

My memories of you aren't straight lines — they're bent spoons, warped photographs left too long in the sun. I remember your laugh, but it cracks at the edges now, like old vinyl. I remember your silhouette by the door, but the shadows reach for it, pull it sideways into a shape that never existed. I said it to you once, half-smiling, knowing

Baibai. The word lingers, soft as a lie you tell yourself before sleep.

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