I Handed My Jacket to a Woman in the Cold, and Two Weeks Later a Velvet Box Turned My World Upside Down

to be sick. Part of me wanted to rip the letter in half just to prove I was still in control of something.

But mostly, I felt stunned.

I thought about that morning again. How quickly I’d chosen. How little I’d weighed the consequences. How I’d offered the jacket like it was nothing, even though it had cost me everything I thought I needed.

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