Chapter 8The silence was slowly killing Angela; there was so much silence in those days. She had not heard from Elizabeth in months, and with each new week that melted into the next, Angela began to suspect that they were finished. In the beginning of the new round of unresponsiveness, she hadn’t worried, since Elizabeth had done this many times before. But this particular time no number of begging or pleading or sobbing voicemails elicited a response. Not long after her last visit, Liz told Angela over the phone that she had meant it as a goodbye, that she really did intend to impose a moratorium on any and all relationships. She said that she could not summon the ability to do this in person although she had intended to. She explained, “I don’t know what happens to me Ange, but when I’m
