The Last House Guest
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Sometimes, in my memory, she lingers there, in the entrance of my room, like she’s waiting for me to notice something.
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That was the problem with a place like this: Everything was right out in the open, including the life you could never have.
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Except I was. In one way or another, I was never more myself than right then. Desperately, terrifyingly, unapologetically myself. And I’d just discovered the power of it, how it wreaked destruction, not only on myself but on others.
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She was fierce and honest—how had I not seen her there in the shadows?
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how you could become so lost in your own anger and grief and bitterness that you can barely see anything else.
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Nothing at his core but the belief that he was worth every little thing he had been given.