“Good try but no. I don’t have a spare minute for anything like that. I’m positively overbooked at bath time. I need to cry, panic about what I’m going to teach this week, and then zone out while obsessing about pointless things. I couldn’t squeeze you in even if I wanted to.” “And you don’t want to?” He asked this in a plain, unassuming way. There was no heat, no innuendo. No expectation. And I loved that so much because I knew my response wouldn’t change anything between us. There wouldn’t be pressure or disappointment. There wouldn’t be any loaded comments about the weekend ahead or the
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