UNBREAK MY HEART
None of us ever did but there was a stubbornness inside me that would learn to be brave because the alternative, living small and quiet, denying this made me feel like a coward.
I didn’t want a life where the best of me was locked behind a door I refused to open.
Emily slid into the chair beside me and leaned her head on my shoulder.
It was a small, human alignment, it was undramatic and perfect.
For the first time since the office, I felt like the pieces might fit.
“Then,” she murmured, “let’s try. And when it hurts, we tell each other.”
“We tell each other,” I agreed. “We don’t let anyone else tell our story for us.”
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