My husband, Ethan Cole, asked for my kidney on a rainy Tuesday night like he was asking.

distance.

Ethan buried himself in work.

I buried myself in routines.

We stopped fighting because fighting requires the belief that something can still be saved.

Margaret never liked me much.

She was never openly monstrous, which almost made it worse.

She specialized in polished cruelty, in comments dressed as observations.

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