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I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted,...more

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things tha...more

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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pr...more

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Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

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I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

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So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you kne...more