And it came out, and there was a fortnight of it, and then we carried on.
And I have described that fortnight, for four years, as me being talked out of what I could see.
And in the May I made myself remember who did the talking.
Dinah said her sentence at that table. That happened and I have it word for word.
And my own mother said something as well, about a week later, and so did my sister, and so did a friend of mine at work — four separate people, all of whom thought he was worth another go, because he was twenty-seven and because we had been together six years.
And so did I.
I decided to stay in 2021. Me, at the end of a fortnight, on my own, in a bath, for reasons that were mine.
And for four years I have been carrying a single sentence from one woman as the reason I did not leave.
