“I’m fine. I mostly don’t miss you.” “Okay, fair enough. I just mean that you seem lonely.” “I AM LONELY!” she shouted, finally giving up on politeness, of protecting him from her anger and confusion. “You left and never came back and I thought maybe you were dead, like you’d jumped into a lake with your pockets filled with rocks. I thought an alien had abducted you. I thought you were mad at me. You messed me up.” “Maybe I’d have messed you up if I’d stayed.” “Probably! You probably would have because you have this thing inside of you that makes you live outside of your own life and never
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