I get through my senior year, graduate, and do all the things the old Ashley needed to do, but all my goals have changed. I say everything that needs to be said to Meredith and Kavita, and to Duke, even Laney Uncapher. It doesn’t fix everything, and I’m not dumb enough to think it would. Meredith still irritates the shit out of me sometimes, and I can’t help the swell of jealousy in my gut when I go to Kavita’s races. It matches the one I feel when I hear that Duke is living with Natalie after we graduate, and I can’t tell myself that I don’t care. I do, but the world is not tame and neither
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