do without the shoe orphanage?” “Don’t,” I said firmly. “Don’t do that. Don’t discount what you are. You’re not just important to Emma.” You’re important to me. I didn’t say the words. I didn’t know why, just that they sat frozen on the tip of my tongue, and I swallowed them down before I could admit something I couldn’t take back. Quiet settled around us then, and we sat like that through half another episode where Brantley and the woman he was on a date with were in a hot tub in the mountains, spilling all their childhood traumas. “This is dangerously close to intimacy, you know,” she
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