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Weekly Contest #313
I tell people that she never showed up. That’s what I’d start with—make it sound like I was wronged in a cinematic way. I was someone who had just enough pride to curtail the truth into something clean, digestible. Something I could recite in passing without feeling defective. Because saying she never said she would come? That she never even knew there was something to come to? That was grotesque. Worse than rejection, because it made me seem like I had hallucinated the whole thing. That I was unwell in some deeply operatic, unsalvageable wa...
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