Chapter 2 - LonelinessI told him about the dinner parties where we sat next to each other and talked to other people all night, and the way we'd started saying “I” instead of “we” without noticing. Tommy listened.He didn't interrupt and he didn't try to fix it. He just sat there with his cuffed hands on the table and his hollow eyes on mine, and he nodded sometimes, and once he said, "That sounds so lonely, Sarah," and I had to stop for a second because nobody had said that to me in a long time."It is," I said. "It's so lonely. I don't think I've been touched by another person in months. Not really. Not like it means anything. I get up, I go to work, I come home, I sit on the couch and I watch something I don't remember and I go to bed and I lie there and I think, this is it, this is the rest of my life, this is the whole thing. And then I get up and do it again. And the worst part is I know it's not even a bad life. I know people have it so much worse. I know you'd trade places
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