“Do you still miss Emma?” She wants so badly for Rory to say no, that time really has healed the wound. From Rory, Eve might believe it. Rory knows what Eve is fishing for—she remembers asking more tenured grievers the same question—but she won’t set a false expectation. “Every single day,” she whispers. “It’s there, and it hurts, but it does become … I don’t know … familiar.”
