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Monday. The town road, half past ten.
The glasses case rode into town in her bag, and Maya was aware of it the whole way, a small hard weight against her hip at every turn, heavier than a thing that size had any right to be.
The car still smelled of dealership plastic. Daniel had arranged it the week before the wedding, a sensible gray thing with heated everything, and she had signed for it feeling like a character accepting a prop. Three weeks on, it held nothing of hers except a phone cable and a parking receipt. The radio found a song from the summer she was sixteen, and she let it play, because Sloane had loved it, and turned it off halfway through, because Sloane had loved it.
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