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do this and don’t ever ask me to speak to you again.”
I nodded.
“If the only way to keep you around was to accept threats and shouting and your hands on my face,” I said, “then I had already lost you before today.”
He looked away. And in that moment, in the first small silence after all the words, I saw something in his face that I had not seen in years.continue reading …
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