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At some point Vanessa said, “You knew they would never ask for help.”
“They never had to ask you, Ness. That was the problem.”
She was quiet for a moment. “I should have shown up more.”
“Yeah,” I said. “You should have.”
“I’m sorry.”
It was the simplest thing she could have said and the most accurate, and I believed her, not completely and not yet, but continue reading …
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