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came rolling down my cheeks and my heart broke into thousands of irreplaceable pie

I whispered, my voice shaking. I was feel

my life would

and he would open the door and tell me it w

silence around me felt heavier with each pa

each moment feeling li

rtless, aware that I ha

e woman he professed to love. And now, here I was, p

er my strength and knocked ag

altered, and I hated how vulnerable I sounded, b

fists against the hardwood. Si

ing and the moon watching do

crumble like t

esperately hoped that things could improve-that he would remember our past and love.

ast time. "Just... give me

-the late nights filled with laughter in this ve

drifted off and I saw the true man he was.

I was too busy trying to be the perfect wif

t closer. It didn't help much against the

, but I stayed there, saying his name

he d

once more, desperati

rst forth, feeling almost strange, as i

erved me the divor

dness consuming me. There was no more shouting, no

the chill, but I hardly felt them-just the a

ered, hoping, clinging to the thin th

oolish to believe would ever come to love

e small life growing within me,

bring a chil

uld I provide, standing outside a door t

ss blurred my vision, e

e that I won't go away... until he has to allow me inside.

shut my eyes, taking qu

knows where, it was useless hoping

rk and I didn't kno

interrupting my thoughts. The noise got louder

cerned man's voice reached

felt so weak and pain kept driv

shed to me. But I couldn't understand it all, the pain was

... I didn't see yo

but I felt darkness closing

lling me down, away from all the pain, heartache, and everything else. Right before I gave up, I th

life I had never known. But here I lay, on the

ing with-Maxwell? The universe? Or perhaps myself,

m surrounded me. The pain went away, the noise became more qu