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"I don’t know, but that’s not why Yourmarital problems just because you’ve suddenly decided that I feel eone a lot, that’s all," I muttered

"I have a job"

"It’s the same job you’ve always had, but you didn’t travel like this before"

"I’ research for the new book and, at the moment, three different articles I can accept h to take care of yourself"

"Oh, it’s all about Barrett," I sneered "That o bitter on ile than you are I worried about hiht you didn’t need me around" He reeled his line all the way in, set the butt of his pole down on the deck, and turned toin his tackle box for a different lure, he co to make e amount of money"

He nodded "It doesn’t make up for the last nineteen years, when she made more than me"

"You’re not in a coht It feels that way, though And I don’t really care I only care because society cares, and I’m supposed to" Satisfied with the new lure he’d found, he deftly slung the line out over the water again

It was soothing to watch him skip the hook over the surface, reel it back in, throw it back out, thinking of nothing, rarely catching anything Just enjoying the sun and the water and the day A flock of pelicans, the more common brown ones rather than white, skispans were impossibly wide I watched until I lost them in the far-off color and movement of the harbor

I mused, "I think I’m a lot more like you than I aure that out"

He was silent for a while The ocean was full of sound, though Waves lapped against the boat Seagulls cried The fishing line buzzed over the water

"But listen, my Kaye," he finally said "You and yourto hang on You’re going through so with at the present ti with, and never will be She’s got issues" He looked pointedly at et that"

A few hours later, I hiked back to my room I had an appointment with Stephen Crane, I supposed, but first I checked ns of Sawyer

Sawyer: How ot taken to don Taerous Way ain

Me: Ha, "let"

Sawyer: Biz is slow & the CL gave o out w u any an explanation, but not fast enough I hated that I’d sent that text by itself, accidentallyhim wait for more I wished I could take it back Finally I sent this:

Me: I ork on them We just need to wait a while if u ait for ratification after I sent my vulnerable text Saas a lot better at this than I was

Sawyer: What if ent out in the daylight when I aet u arrested?

Me: I don’t know

Sawyer: What if we did so innocent?

Me: You?