“There’s a reason I’m telling you this,” she says. “On all those calls, whenever I’d ask Danny to tell me about his life in the city, the conversation always found its way back to you—what you thought of the script he was working on for his thesis. Or a funny story you’d told him about your grandfather, or a debate the two of you were having about nineties rom-coms. And that’s when I realized, while he had been taking care of me, you were taking care of him. “You should never have had to do that,” she says, tearfully. “God, you both were so young, but especially you, Kaliya. I’ll always be
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