A Tin of Old Photographs Revealed Why a Best Friend Kept Helping

around the strap of my purse.

“I am not moving into your house, Harold,” I said.

He smiled, a small, patient gesture that made my skin turn cold.

“Where else will you go?” he asked.

I did not answer him.

I turned the brass doorknob and walked out into the hallway, where Rachel was waiting by the water cooler.

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