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Lane

I’m dying to get out of this dress, to wash the makeup and the rest of this horrible night off me, but there’s something that takes precedence.

I log into my work email account and send my article to Britt. The real story. The only one that matters.

After, I shower.

And when I climb into bed, exhausted and spent, I smile through my tears, knowing I finally chose myself.