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idn't say anything. Instead, she navigated to a video. An in

e was saying to the interviewer. "I woke up in a hospital, and I didn't k

, and he just... he saw something in me. He gave me a story to hold on to. His song, 'F

the phone. The si

creen, she isn't the Olivia you knew. The accident, the amnesia...

er. "Maybe the kindest thing

know it is. When she smiles, her left eye crinkles just a little bit more than

t looked at me with an expr

a call. An unknown number. She glanced at the scre

's room?" a brisk, pr

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inal Breath.' I'm calling on behalf of the production team, and

he film. I had forgo

m. "He feels a deep connection to your struggle. He and Olivia would like to visit you, to pay their respects

feel normal. He was a regular, a writer working on a screenplay. We' d made small talk. One day, weak from treatment and high on p

would sell my trag

e woman playing the role of the loving gi

herself. And s

y had not just erased me; it was now forcing me to watch my own life be r

n the phone prompted. "Wo

up, to throw the phone against the wall, to

hought took hold. A des

again. To be in the same ro

y, the word a dry whispe

I couldn't meet her eyes. I was alrea

ped me get ready. It felt like

hirt, a soft blue one that Olivia had always said brought out t

ooking back was a stranger. Sunken eyes, hollow cheeks,

is," Sarah said, her voi

my voice stron

ers, her grip firm and steady. "T

nchor in a sea of pain. I didn'

er by my side,