“And I was like, I don’t really have any problems,” I said. “I mean, something terrible happened. But it didn’t happen to me. It happened to my sister. And I don’t have problems. Or well, everyone has problems. And so I don’t know what there is to talk about right now really. And Lydia was like, Well, here, in this space, you don’t need to talk.” “Isn’t that the whole point though?” Billy asked. “That you have to talk?” “That’s what I said.” “What’d Lydia say?” Billy asked. “When you are ready, Sally, you can talk.” It was forty-eight minutes later when I felt ready. “I was like, goodbye,
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