But now … now I feel like I’m standing on the shoreline, watching her drown, and I don’t know how to swim. I don’t know how to save her. I’ll try anyway. Throw myself headfirst into the water and figure it the fuck out. Because I’m not letting her go down. “You do enough,” I tell everyone, the words quiet but certain. “You’re here, day in and day out. We never doubt that.” I shrug, standing and shuffling out of the booth, tossing my jacket over my arm. “I don’t think there’s anything else you can do for us. We just … we have to get through it.” I manage a smile. “I know it might not seem like
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