I Let Them Finish Eating Before I Took Everything Back

the key in. Then they stopped.

In the rearview mirror, Charlotte was watching the house disappear behind us.

She didn’t wave.

If this one stayed with you, send it to somebody who’ll understand why silence has a breaking point.

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