All the Things You Are (2014)
“He’s late, which has always been his way, and not surprising, but much less endearing than it used to be, even last week. Last week. It’s not simply that it feels like such a long time ago, it feels like it happened in an entirely parallel reality, an alternative Claire in an alternative life. And yes, that was the point, she realizes, that was the entire point of the exercise: to be the Claire she hadn’t been, had failed to be, to try it on and see how it felt and … well, there wasn’t much tho...ught beyond that. Wasn’t much reality to it at all. Even as she was walking up the drive of the house last night, before she discovered what had happened, it was click-clacking into her brain, in quickstep with her hangover: it’s very nice to go traveling, but it’s so much nicer to come home. Except when it isn’t.
She orders a Diet Coke – she’s tempted by the idea of a bracer, a Greyhound would be her preference, vodka and grapefruit juice, breakfast of those at their wits’ end, but she doesn’t think she has the stomach for it – and looks at the text message again.MoreLess
She orders a Diet Coke – she’s tempted by the idea of a bracer, a Greyhound would be her preference, vodka and grapefruit juice, breakfast of those at their wits’ end, but she doesn’t think she has the stomach for it – and looks at the text message again.MoreLess
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