“Yeah, it will, because I’m going to take a step back,” she declared and the way she said it made me think she had thought about this a lot. “I’ll take the sideline bench when it comes to our friendship circle, and I won’t interfere in your life.” “Liz.” My eyes started to water. “I don’t want that.” “Neither do I,” she squeezed out, sniffling. “But it has to happen.”
