His Donna
Part of me, the animal one, hadn’t wanted her to let go.
She’s my wife, I thought. The image of her onstage, walking beside me, the breath that had left her at the sight of people watching it sits in my head like a small and dangerous thing. She didn’t understand what it meant, that night. She didn’t know the weight of the mantle she had been given. She didn’t understand what being Dona of the Crown Family meant. I should not have to teach someone the brutality of our world, but the truth is we either make them part of us, or we risk them becoming weak seams that split and unravel in the worst moments.
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