“It’s because of the internet. Or maybe the city, or his friends,” I’d tell myself. Anything except the possibility that he simply didn’t care. I kept knitting, kept wrapping little things in leftover Christmas paper, kept a folder full of cards I never mailed. I spoke to his picture on the mantel more often than to the man himself sitting across from me in years now.
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