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Chapter 15

The divorce was granted.

I kept my accounts.

My retirement.

My career.

My name.

Daniel kept the house because I did not want it.

Too many memories of him pacing outside my home office door.

Too many nights of hiding ambition like contraband.

I moved into a small apartment with terrible sunlight and perfect quiet.

Maya helped me unpack.

She placed my wedding ring in a small box labeled Evidence of Poor Decisions.

I laughed so hard I cried.

Then I actually cried.

Not because I wanted Daniel back.

Because leaving still hurts, even when staying would destroy you.

Maya sat beside me on the floor.

May you like

“Freedom has a weird echo at first,” she said.

She was right.

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