She said, “I called you and you were gone. I went to your house and you’d left. How could you leave me when things were so hard? You left without even saying good-bye!” I braced my body, became as tight and hard as armor. I felt nothing but the need to get through this and over it. “But it was me who made them hard! I thought I would leave so that things could be better for you! So you could forget what I had done.” “After I searched high and low and found you! All my life all I wanted was a girl! And then when I needed her, she disappeared.” I started to cry. “But I was so bad I made it so
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