“It’s not like I stopped seeing them. I went over occasionally, but it’s so awkward, so bizarre to talk to the people who created and raised me as if they’re acquaintances that I stopped doing that, even. It was too much to take.” “You are the one who cut off contact.” “No. They did, emotionally. I just matched their move.” “All this over a canceled engagement.” The stranger raises an eyebrow. “Well, it’s complicated. Families are complicated. History is complicated. You know.”
