[It's the safest version of the truth, Nadine thinks. Or at least the easiest way to lead into it, if it seems she should.]
I don't think it's any surprise to say that what he was and what I am aren't exactly compatible in the long run. And I knew that. When he was the entirety of my world, that was okay. The idea that I could....become like him. Because we'd be together and then I wouldn't care about what was good or bad or anything like that.
[It had seemed just a necessity. To be with him, to be able to be with him like that, as man and wife. She'd agreed to it, not tacitly but clearly and directly before he'd gone from this world.
How different things would be, had he remained. What would she be now? Who would she be? Something terrible, probably.]
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[It's the safest version of the truth, Nadine thinks. Or at least the easiest way to lead into it, if it seems she should.]
I don't think it's any surprise to say that what he was and what I am aren't exactly compatible in the long run. And I knew that. When he was the entirety of my world, that was okay. The idea that I could....become like him. Because we'd be together and then I wouldn't care about what was good or bad or anything like that.
[It had seemed just a necessity. To be with him, to be able to be with him like that, as man and wife. She'd agreed to it, not tacitly but clearly and directly before he'd gone from this world.
How different things would be, had he remained. What would she be now? Who would she be? Something terrible, probably.]