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scraping across the floor makes my chest tighten.
Sometimes Noah sleeps with a lamp on.
I never ask him to turn it off.
Susan visits every Sunday.
She never brings flowers.
She brings practical things.
Bread.
Batteries.
Groceries.
The kind of help that quietly holds people together when they’re trying not to fall apart.
I don’t know exactly when Noah and I will continue reading …
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