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"And Richard wonders why this happens, why he can't just be honest with the person he's in a relationship with; why he spends so much time not even being honest with himself"

"There are parts of him he doesn't understand, parts he wilfully hides from himself"

"If he's honest, hedidn't know how to love them. How to love Karen. When he was with them, he got it, he understood. Bu when he was away. when he was away with work. he , didn't miss them. Not really. He was glad of the space But they never felt real to him. They just felt like something that had happened to a version of him, some other him, some unreal part of him that he couldn't fully receive or understand."

"And time did seem to move oddly during all this. The days would disappear but the nights would be heavy and slow, and the weeks would drag but the months would bunch up, spilling over each other like they were all racing for the new year."

happy new year's eve eve