He was fumbling. The year after Linyee’s death had been passed in a gray, soundless fog, an acceptance that the best part of his life was over and that now he could only muddle through each monotonous day, waiting to die. He was content, he told himself. They’d had a good life. He would not dwell upon regrets. And yet in the month since Suchi had reappeared in his life, he’d discovered he still had things he wanted, wishes unfulfilled. Suchi was the answer to all of those things. He would right history with her. They would restart their lives, cram everything that had been robbed from them
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