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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at KU chapter.

I had a dream last night and you were in it.

There are fleeting images that I remember in the morning as I stretch my legs, crack my neck, roll over to face the sunlight. Something about a city in the fog. I think we had dinner with some academics and talked about paddle boarding. I boarded a steamboat and watched you grow smaller on the shore. I moved into a library and slept on a bed of Virginia Woolf novels. You worked at a coffee shop and we built a fire indoors. There was a field of wheat that moved like the ocean in the wind and a dog swam through it. I found myself locked in a haunted room and you were no where to be seen. We were chased by corrupt police and hid in a stairwell beneath a warehouse building. Some strangers in rusted pick-ups let us ride in the bed of their trucks and offered a place to sleep in the night.

You were everywhere and nowhere all together, surrounding me and still not enough.

But you were in it, and I sleep easier at night.

Hannah Strader graduated from the University of Kansas in December 2018 with a degree in journalism and creative writing. She has past experience as both a writer and editor for high school and collegiate level newspaper staff and spent the summer of 2017 in London working with Healthista, an online women's health magazine. Her passions include but are not limited to Harry Styles, Taco Bell, witchcraft and books. She has two cats and can recite all the U.S. presidents in order. She's proud to call herself a Her Campus alumni. Formerly the Editor in Chief, Senior Editor, and staff writer at Her Campus KU.
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