“What are you waiting for? If you’re really going to go.” She speaks so sharply she surprises herself. And it has worked: she has hurt him. But there is something about the determined look in his eyes that hurts her more, something that tells her he is serious, that there will be no dissuading him. Once she glimpses her fear, she follows it to its worst conclusion, and now she wonders, What if this is the last time I see my brother? “We both know what it is you are doing,” she says, kindly this time. “Do you think leaving will help you? That if you leave you can have a healthier—” She stops.
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