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Everything We Almost Said
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Theo doesn't sit. He stays standing, hand on the back of the chair. "And then what?" he asks. "We stay tonight, and tomorrow we go back to almost? I can't keep doing almost with you, Mara. It's killing me a little." His voice cracks on the last word.
"So that's it?" Mara says. "You'd rather end it than risk it?" Theo doesn't answer, and the silence is the answer. He picks up his coat. "I'm sorry," he says. He leaves enough cash for both coffees and walks out into the snow, and she lets him.
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