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“And what about her marriage? After her night with Yatzil, she knew how unfair it all was to Johnny, not only the affair, but all Lena had held back in the marriage. She had made herself smaller over the years, afraid of admitting what she truly craved.”

But they are far too familiar now, decidedly unstrangered.

She isn't lonely, quite, but she has a sharp awareness of her solitude, the sudden emptiness of the room buzzing bright around her.

“But they hold hands because they know there is no such thing as time, and that whatever this connection is, it is a Gift.”

“I was heartbroken, but free. Grieving, but relieved. A dichotomy of feelings on the blank canvas of my future self that I had yet to meet.”