I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

was something I recognized as myself being present in my own life without apology.

“It feels,” I said, “like I got out before losing the part of me that would have stayed.”

Tasha considered that for a moment. Then she picked up her sparkling water and raised it briefly, and I raised mine, and that was all the ceremony the occasion required.

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