Discarded By The Country Queen

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. For Izzy. For our

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new city.

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stay, to be her anc

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ded by love

ruth: my choice h

dwelling on it. For

sleep was a

of our life toge

mmed when she was writing, t

he songs I'd written for h

ainted, twisted

e concern as she handed me the divor

t of dawn, the other side

n the house w

t up, shower

were mechani

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e. Him a

white dress, a s

grinning, his ar

ng under a flowe

genuine, unforced joy I had

she became the

with

finally mine, Walker. W

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he hadn't

n looked remar

fresh stab, s

our marriage, the shadows I' d often seen i

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d me, raw and shaky.

deleted the mess

ive him the

st a few clothes, my

rniture, the life we'd buil

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am. We'll

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unter, I heard a commo

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