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If I was done beinghis

Outrage e to be the first to speak, so I put nation, I got up out ofmy purse

Michael watched me like a man defeated

I was done with that too

Just because he felt res to me didn’t mean it was okay

The truth was I’d said worse over the years withto be kinder toothers to fill me up with their poison anymore

I never thought Michael would be one of them

“Thank you,” I told him

He flinched ever so slightly “What?”

“For killing it” I nodded “Yeah, for finally killing it The way I feel about you The guilt All of it The Michael I kneould never have treated me the way you’ve treated me since I came home, no matter what I’d done You hate ed with an ambivalence I wished I felt “I don’t hate you I don’t feel anything for you anymore”

The lared at me

Breaking eye contact, I looked down the table to my dad “I’ll call a cab and see you all at home”

Thankfully, no one protested They let nity

He watched her make her way out of the bar, and his knees shook

“I don’t feel anything for you anymore”