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to offer a reprieve, to say that none of it needs to be this final.
I did not call him back.
I closed the door.
I turned the lock.
And then I stood with my back against it in the silence of a house that was entirely my own again, and I let that feeling settle into every room.
The candle on the dining table had burned almost all the way down. The wine glass continue reading …
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