“I just”—she hesitates—“I couldn’t go back to the beginning. I couldn’t let myself get stuck again.” Sam is beginning to understand, but it still stings him, how easily she says this, how easily she’s carried on without them. “Is that how we made you feel, then? Stuck? Like we trapped you? I trapped you?” “I’m just saying I always came last. I gave up my career, my body, five years of my life. I saw a glimpse at something close to happiness and I took it.”
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Krystle Zara Appiah,
Rootless
