had“When I finally made the decision, I didn’t stop to think. I always knew that when I’d reconciled myself to leaving, I wouldn’t spend days packing, or sleepless nights turning over the hows and wheres, thinking about what I was going to take and what I was going to leave behind. I’d just up and go. So that’s what I did. I threw some clothes in a case, took my grandma’s music box off the shelf, and walked away. I left him a note, telling him I wasn’t coming back and asking him not to get in touch.”
She reached for the coffee table and picked up the ring – her wedding ring – that Adam could still see, in the landscape of his memory, spinning endlessly on the glass. She twirled it between her fingers.
her wedding ring “I was still wearing this when I went. I don’t know why. I thought abo
