Park walked in and sat down and started talking about the pharmaceutical figures, and I listened, and I asked the right questions, and somewhere in the middle of it I realised I had absolutely no idea what he had said for the last four minutes.“Sorry,” I said. “Run that last part again.”Park looked at me. He wasn’t the kind of man who made a thing of moments like that, which I appreciated. He just went back three sentences and repeated himself without any change in expression, and I focused properly this time, and we got through the meeting, and when he left I sat back in my chair and pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes.Jason had tried.Eight months in, twenty nine years old, gone to my father hat in hand, and my father had sent him away with she’s fine, and Jason had believed him because it was easier than pushing at something he didn’t know how to fix, and I had spent the next two years and four months disappearing inside a marriage that might have been different if one
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