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They stopped just before the door. Outside, the rain fell in thick sheets, interspersed with waves of pebble-sized hail.
"Do you have your umbrella?"
"*My* umbrella? I thought it was yours!"
"Why would *I* have a pink and purple umbrella with lacy fringes?"
"Don't be coy. You know you're into that sort of thing."
"You know me all too well. So...shall we brave the rain?"
"With you, anything is possible!"
Pushing together with one arm each, the door swung open and revealed a silent, inky void outside. The torrential rain was still visible through the glass, but not through the opened door.
"Wait...how does *this* make sense?"
"I don't know. Maybe this iisn't really a furniture store?"
"Then what is it? Is it Hell? Are we in Hell>"
"Why would Hell be a furniture store?"
"Why, do you actually *like* to shop for furniture? *No* one likes to. It's a perfectly miserable Hell, especially if we died when we were kids."
"We died when we were kids?"
"I don't know. Do *you* remember how you died?"
"I don't remember dying at all."
"Say, come to think of it, neither do I. Maybe we're alive?"
"Hard to say. Do you remember being born?"
"No...but I was very young when that happened."
"Well, isn't that convenient. Oh, look, the rain has stopped."
"So it has. The inky void was just an awning leading to an unlit street."
"Funny how we didn't notice it before."
"Well, you know, it was dark."
Arms still locked, they strolled outside.
"So...was this an intensely pretentious conversation, or what?"
"I don't know...Evan Connell wrote entire books like this."
"But he was *intensely* pretentious."
"I guess I can't argue with you there."
"Well, now that this is all settled, I have bad news for you too."
"Oh? What is it? Ugh...what's that smell?"
"That's the bad news. I farted."
"Oh, how pedestrian of you. What a rotten ending."
"It's all we could afford. We're poor and you're unemployed, remember?"
"Don't forget you're unemployed too."
"Just one more thing we have in common, my dear!"
"I love you."
"I love you too!"

Philosophy and religious books that proof that The Law of Attraction is real?