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“I told him I was going to stay exactly ten miles away from him forever. And the other boys. They’re all disgusting.” Lila pulls her palm down over her face slowly and lets out a long, shaky breath. “Never change, Violet,” she says, when she can speak again. “You’ve already acquired so much more wisdom than I ever did.”
“It’s never a good time,” says Lila. “There is not one single good time for anything right now. Not for my tree to fall down, not for my loos to block, not for my own book to make me a laughing stock every bloody day and certainly not for my husband to impregnate his much younger lover on top of her Noguchi bloody coffee-table.”
“You look very nice by the way. I’m saying that in a non-date, friendly, asexual, age-appropriate manner.”
It turns out that knowing something is entirely your fault does not necessarily help you get over it.
Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them.
