Dear Lily,

My dentures are clenched from just thinking about this story.

Deidre and Toby hadn’t even told anyone until it was done. No warning whatsoever. They came running into Addie’s where I was eating dinner with you guys. Deidre was with Toby, who didn’t seem nearly as ecstatic as she was. He looked at me with a strange, unreadable expression on his face, as if his brain got stuck and couldn’t think. Cognitive dissonance raring it’s ugly head. It felt like his feelings rubbed off on me. I felt stuck and had no idea why. Similar to Rose and her infectious melancholia, but so strange that it was different at the same time. I still don’t know what to think about those feelings to this day.

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