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someone who meant a lot to me at one point did nothing meaningful with his life almost feels like a personal slight.”
“No one is thinking of you that way,” said the woman. “No one is sitting around waiting for you to be good.”
they were evidence of a life wonderfully, glamorously lived.
“Germany is a strange place,” said the woman. “But of course, everyone says this about everywhere.”
Mallory’s mother had said, was like sitting in a rowboat while waiting for a tidal wave.
Mallory thought a nice life, a good life, would consist of being the cause of that smile.
“I am very sorry I forgot about our meeting. My life feels far away from me at the moment.”
“Loneliness always seems so luxurious,” the woman slurred. “All the time I want to be by myself but then when I am, I desperately want someone else around.”
Everywhere she looked, even if she closed her eyes, there it was. She felt there was nothing between her and the overwhelming brightness of the world.
