The Man She Forgot To See

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