Why haven’t you sent your manuscript to that agent yet? I felt conflicted then, because I should have sent it off. I should have finished it. But every time I opened my laptop, I thought about him. He was working so hard. He had always wanted to be a writer. He should have this opportunity, but I did, and I knew how he felt about that. I wasn’t meaning to hold myself back but I just kept thinking if he could only finish his book first so that I could finish that little bit behind him …
