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It was as if he were in one room and his emotions had been left in another. They were being kept there against his will. He had not minded a break from them, but it had turned into an absence. Had they been hijacked? He couldn’t simply open a door to his emotions because the door to them was a wall. So, he sat at the wall and bided time. Every now and then he’d sense a vibration through the wall, but soon came to realize it was from his mind addressing itself: Who put this wall here?, I should climb it, Maybe dig a tunnel, Why no door? His anxiety did not abate till he stepped away enough to be able to ask: Isn’t it love when one’s emotions are hijacked and reside in another? — and when one feels no choice but to charge out of oneself and claim those emotions as one’s own?