Page 62 of No Safe Place

D: How are you feeling now?

P: How do you think?

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D: Sorry.

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D: I am. Sorry.

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P: So not a one-off, then?

D: No. No, I guess not.

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D: But you know we can’t do that again, don’t you?

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P: Yes.

A breath exhaled.

D: Okay. It never happened.

P: It never happened. Twice.

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P: I should get dressed. Pass me that – under the desk.

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P: Thank you.

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D: And you know you can’t tell the others, don’t you?

P: I’m not an idiot, D—.

D: I know. I know you’re not an idiot.

P: I can’t find my other sock.

D: Because they wouldn’t understand. You know that don’t you? That they wouldn’t understand?

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D: And they wouldn’t believe you. No one – they just wouldn’t.