"It's not going to disappear, Rich. We're not going to disappear. We've managed not to do that to one another yet, and we're not going to do it to you."
Johnny quietly tucks the card he received into the breast pocket of his shirt, close to his heart. "We all know what it is to be heart-wounded and abandoned." That last word is quieter than the rest. He's thinking about his family there, but also the fugitive Mimley Bastrop leaving the city and coming back married.
He left his family, so can he even really count that as them abandoning him? Probably not. Maybe. He's truly not sure. And Mimley didn't choose to leave, not really. And he did come back. Maybe none of it counted. Except the ache in his heart said otherwise.
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Johnny quietly tucks the card he received into the breast pocket of his shirt, close to his heart. "We all know what it is to be heart-wounded and abandoned." That last word is quieter than the rest. He's thinking about his family there, but also the fugitive Mimley Bastrop leaving the city and coming back married.
He left his family, so can he even really count that as them abandoning him? Probably not. Maybe. He's truly not sure. And Mimley didn't choose to leave, not really. And he did come back. Maybe none of it counted. Except the ache in his heart said otherwise.