flibbertigibbet.

“that a man who can’t love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.

“Darling,” she says, “I just wanted to say, I am so proud of you. You are the most extraordinary girl in the world and I am so lucky to have you in my life. And I also wanted to say that I’m sorry, so sorry if anything I’ve ever done has made you feel like less than the center of my world. Because you are, you are absolutely the center of my world

The rest of her bones I took to a municipal dump a few miles down the road.

because by the end I swear I had no idea what I’d ever seen in her. No idea at all. She was, after all, just a girl.

Then one day, when the baby was about five months old, I shut the door to that room, and for a very long time I did not go back.

the girl

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