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then discovered the map was made up.”

She said, “And now you’re making your own.”

She was right.

That was exactly what I was doing.

Daniel and Rachel, I later learned, had spent those quiet weeks watching, waiting to see if I would soften, waiting for the grief to overtake the strategy.

They were operating on an assumption about who I was.

The woman who continue reading …