“I’m sorry too,” says Courtney. “I don’t want to say this, and I don’t want to believe this, but some things can’t be fixed.” Her voice is so quiet and so sad, she doesn’t even sound like herself. She sounds like she is talking about her whole life. She’s talking about Sam’s dad, and Jack, and Adam too. Adam is with someone else. That’s why Courtney broke up with him. It turns out he was with this other person all along—but it doesn’t matter. Courtney is over it. There are a lot of things she hated about him—like he is a Neanderthal and he has guns. Sam clears the table, and her mom washes the
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