(no subject)
“It was your right, of course. I knew it was. I certainly was not in a position to stop you, to change your mind. I suppose I…may have been a little hurt. It was an opportunity and I was excited for it….I probably would have chosen it anyway. But even so…you were the first person to tell me ‘I will find you’ and ‘I will always find you’. Do you remember? Of course you do. Stupid, ugly, ratfaced boy with a gap in his teeth where that front one was knocked out by-you always remember. Still. You were slipping away from me. So easily. I could look in front of us and see you walking faster and faster and the truth is…”
Her explanation is: “I wanted to leave you. Before you left me.”
His response is: “…bitch, if you want the sheets just fucking take ‘em.”