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'Were you in love with him?' Becca asks.
'I can be helped' I say. 'That's kind of the worst thing, though"
'Yes.Yes, it is"
This has happened to Becca, hasn't it? She knows, how it is to lose a man, be left empty-handed and hulled out?'Are you okay?' I ask. Though it's all right if she isn't, I don't need her to be the strong one. We‘re neighter of us going anywhere.
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