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she barely recognizes herself
with her hair dyed blond and all the weight she has lost since she left he won't be able to find her he didn't even know she had a grandmother or of the house she inherited from her two years ago that was when she still believed he might change before that one black eye turned in to many she kept telling herself he wasn't hurting Alison things would be fine but her daughter had been younger then asleep by eight his fights with her muffled by the television she would tell her she hit her eye on a cabinet corner that she sprained her wrist moving the tv to dust underneath the broken bottles on the floor was just another clumsy mommy accident she doesn't have to lie anymore Alison is safe in her bed in their new home the moving men have left she will stay up all night putting things the way she likes them he isn't here to tell her what to do now or how she should be this house feels too big without him taking all the air too quiet without his heavy footsteps on the stairs she left at night while he was passed out drunk after some particularly brutal "makeup" sex that he felt entitled to because he came home with flowers and had finished his 6th beer just two suitcases and her daughter drove through the night stopping only once at a diner because Alison wanted pancakes when they arrived in town she used the key her grandmother had left to see what furniture had been saved in the storage unit it was enough to furnish the house she can't believe she actually went through with it she should be happy but instead she feels hollow as if she were a cantaloupe half spoon-carved of all seed and flesh
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Sally Johnson
4/26/2021 06:38:57 pm
I love this ! I'm so looking forward to more !!!
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