She began sleeping over at Tim’s apartment nearly every night. Once, when he came back from work at the end of the day and she was still in bed, nine hours later, he gently suggested that tomorrow she should try to move to the couch. “I talked about my own struggles and how even if I don’t want to do anything all day I’ll get dressed,” he said. “I’ll make myself food—it’s the tiniest, tiniest little things. You’re never going to have a big breakthrough. But there are a lot of tiny breakthroughs, and they add up.” Years before, during a period of semi-recovery, Hava had written in her journal
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