mean to lose you.”
Not: “We didn’t mean to hurt you.” Lose. As if I were an asset that had been misallocated. As if the fundamental problem was the outcome rather than the choice.
“I’m not lost,” I told him. “I’m just not available.”
He exhaled. “I suppose we miscalculated.”
Even in the closest thing he had ever offered to an acknowledgment, he spoke the continue reading …
