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Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.

An old friend used to call these neither-here-nor-there realms the “zero world” for the way they feel unfastened from reality, parallel to daily life but separate.

Gloria unfastens her helmet, hangs it on her handlebar, and sighs.

For 12 days, we shared every moment and, surrounded by the kind of beauty only a remote bay in the Pacific could afford, I felt something unfasten in my chest.

He quickly unfastened the seat belt and dived over the front seat and out the chauffeur’s door.