five years – my love, my
ment party, hoping it would final
d me, calling me her "charity case" and her "lapdog
voice in my mind announced "Objective Fa
lizing she' d never once shown me such warmth, before five years of m
a blank, the woman whose name was the only eme
tailing her casual cruelty, her abuse, and m
hetic, so completely devoted to someon
free from the shadow of a love I no longer remembe