Vanessa had been right; Joan should have told her that. They could not back down. Joan should have told her that she was determined to rail against the world at every turn. She would scream and she would fight against how the world treated people like them, treated anyone on its edges. Because Joan knew they would win in the end, they all would. They would hold on long enough to see the world change. To make it accept what Joan knew to be true. That her life was complete only if lived next to Vanessa’s. They say love isn’t always enough, but Joan knew, in that moment, that it could have been.
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