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Aldo and Sarah sat at the dinner table together. It had been almost a week since the café incident. Sarah had spent the past few days looking after him diligently. Aldo had gradually switched to heavier foods as per the doctor’s recommendation. The report from Doctor Rossi had stated that he was at high risk of infection and that the recovery was slow due to emotional and mental strain. Although he could walk just fine by now, he made Sarah support him every time he stood up.
Sarah couldn’t shake the feeling that it was all her fault off. No matter how many times he reassured her that there was nothing she could have done, she could not help feeling that his slow recovery was as a result of the stress she put him through. Her recurrent escapes, the starving, the fights, she had instig
