The Grace of Leaving
I remembered her in a white dress, smiling at me in the field, and the firm way she wrote the word 'quagmire' in her autobiography as she was dying.
We were married once, after all.
I nodded. "Yes, I'll go."
As I followed the officer through the factory, all the workers looked at me with mixed feelings.
They had only recently learned that I, the ordinary repairman, was the lawful husband of their esteemed Ms. Scott.
I walked on without showing any emotion, ignoring their stares.
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The jail was chilly and damp, with a musty, rusty smell in the air.
Sitting across an icy metal table, I faced her.
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