Masking Reality
Concentrate on the happy things they said.
But I don’t have happy things. Nothing major. Something small that makes you smile. They bored me. Jeremy was much more pragmatic. He was still a pain in my ass, and entirely too optimistic, for his own good. But there were the occasions when he was tired, or distracted, and I caught an edge of cynicism in his tone. I could work on him. In the cafeteria, they served a strong, black, bitter coffee in thin, brown paper cu...
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