She’d heard, before, the death knell of a relationship—or rather it was something feelable, like a storm in the air—and in her experience it began in this way, with small lies of propriety that amassed into little towers, lulls in conversation or split seconds of strange eye contact or a line or two spoken by the other person that made you think huh, that’s not what I expected you to say. Of course she always hoped her relationships, as they were beginning, wouldn’t meet their ends, but the fact was that she’d always expected them to. She hadn’t expected it with Helen, though, until that
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