“I’m not sure when or where, but something went amiss. Neither of us noticed because there was so much happening at the time and we’d gotten caught up in all of it. Perhaps I had been trying so hard to listen that I forgot to speak. And it could have been days, or weeks, maybe even months, before we realized we’d gone wrong somewhere. Suddenly there was distance. We’d drifted somewhere. Away. Apart. And then when we looked at each other, we saw different people.”
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