She didn't plan it.That was the thing she'd tell Dominique afterward, and it was true — she hadn't woken up on that particular Saturday in February thinking today is the day I go back. She'd woken up at six forty-something, the system having loosened enough over the winter that the fourteen-minute specificity had blurred into a general early, and she'd made coffee and looked at Gerald's seven leaves and the January light on the windowsill and thought about the manuscript sitting in her colleague Helena's inbox, waiting.She'd sent it on Thursday.Two days ago.She hadn't heard back yet and was practicing, with moderate success, not thinking about it every forty minutes.She'd been going to go to Brooklyn — Saturday, the market, Rosa, the familiar rhythm of it. She'd texted Caleb at eight. He'd texted back: Nathan crisis. Chapter thing. Give me until noon?Take your time, she'd written.
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