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“Do you resent your wife?

“She’s dead.”

“That’s not an answer.”

“I do.”

.. an overarching sense of penance.

Because grief erects a private room around its sufferer. And while there’s no reliable way to escape, no way to predict when the door will unlock, you can at least pass the time with neighbors.

“It’s just that- this whole thing was a bad idea. I was being stupid. And you were the only one who texted me back.”

I feel like I need to be living in a way that justifies what I did. …. You can try to escape certain people, try to let them go, but you just become beholden to them in different ways.

“We made the same mistakes,” Jodie said faintly. “You can’t be that much smarter than me if you fucked up the same way I did.”

“And that was how?”

“Trusting a man who betrayed you.”