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would know and nothing is too fast",

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him to the d

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dad and telling me the same day she plan

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aback. "I was just tryin

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ou walk into my house, sit at my dad's dining table, and e

lmly, trying to salvage the moment. "Bu

did

e how to feel. You met my mom three months ago and

p abruptly, her chair scraping agains

and a replacement husband on me in the sa

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up, my hands shaking. "I won't

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her off. "I'm goin

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and pretend this is okay. You ca

r me, warning me to calm down, but I didn't listen. I stormed out of the dini

my vision as

my dad's face, my mom's indifference, that man sitting co

e house, my bag slu

I just needed to get out, to clear my head,

footsteps quick, my thoughts louder than my heart

om moving on as if eighteen years of marriage and family meant noth

he approaching car until it was too late. The screech of

it me. The impact sent me sprawling onto the

ying to pull myself up. My bag tumb

at close. My vision blurred, and darkness s