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“But what if you’re looking at the wrong truth?”

She shook her head again, trying desperately to stay above water so she didn’t drown in her own shortco true to herself, either “I don’t get it,” she said, needing to understand “How can truth be wrong?”

“You’re focused on being like Mom, based on what you were like with Mike, and on a house, a kind of hoht for you”

“Yeah I hurt you, and those I care ie The only way I live with myself is to remain focused on that To learn from the mistakes”

Angie sipped Sitting upright, not even touching her hand like she usually did, leaving A cut off Adrift Not that she blamed her sister

“How ether the past three months?”

The innocuous question ca to do with anything

“How often have we talked?”

“All the time Every day Like always”

“Exactly”

“So?”

“Soyouin your life and still be there for me”

That was different “We weren’t a couple I wasn’t putting him first”

“I think you did If you weren’t putting hietting hurt”

She’d stop anything she could if she knew she was hurting someone else