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simply tracked the GPS on the vintage Must

es away, at St.

fiancé-met my gaze in the rearview mirror

here,"

he smell of antiseptic and burnt coffee hit

he front desk where he

ng at a nurse

I am? Get a doc

wall, keeping to the shadows

torn at the shoulder. There was blood on his

ing on the exam

f ice to her forehead. There wa

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id it al

that were supposed to put a ring on my finger in fort

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aned i

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d the harsh fluorescent light caught t

. Heavy with gold and

omach turned over in a s

the Fazio matriarch's legacy. It was tradition. It was

en it to t

He had given her my heritage. He h

ean against the wall. It wasn't heartbreak.

looked pathetic. A man playing a k

heel. I walked

I told th

to, Mis

his trash,"

numbness spreading through my chest, calcifying my heart