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legends didn’t say was how overwhelming it was to see everything, everything, all at once. Inflating lungs and decaying flesh and would-be fetuses growing in the womb, nothing but a few wisps of tissue. Bones and breath and burial tears. All of it, all of it, rushing through me. So much meaning that it became meaningless.

You deal in betrayals like a moneylender deals in debt.”

I had offered her a single lifeline to save face