Matt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Miguel, she corrected.
Sorry, we still slip sometimes.
He hated when we called him by his first name.
He's always gone by his middle name.
You know how kids are.
I hung up and sat in my car for a long time, staring at nothing.
Miguel's first name.
I had never heard it before.
Not once on the trip.
Not once in all the time I'd known him.
It felt like a very small thing, that missing piece of information.
And then I thought of the hut wall.
It knows names.
And I thought of the Polaroid.
It can come as any of you.
And I thought of the voice in the wash, sounding like him, saying my name.
Hey, Matt.
If it knew his real name, the one he'd spent his whole life avoiding, the one he never answered to, what would that mean?
Would it be a deeper hook?
Or would it be the one thing it couldn't use?