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Thursday. The gray hour, before either of them moved.
The light came in the color of dishwater and made everything in the room look older and kinder.
He was asleep on his front with one arm out across the space between them, palm up, the way he had left it. Maya lay still and watched the ceiling go from gray to a slightly better gray and listened to him breathe, and for one hour the thing she had been afraid to want for three weeks sat in the room with her and felt like hers.
That was the trouble. It did feel like hers.
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