A few weeks ago I was on a call with a friend — someone I trust, someone I'm easy around — and she said something about how I "always disappear when things get heavy." Just tossed it out between sips of coffee, the way you'd mention that it might rain later. She wasn't trying to be cruel. She was being more accurate than I'd been with myself in probably a decade. I laughed. Said something about being busy. Changed the subject with the smoothness of someone who's been changing subjects since elementary school, then put the phone down and …
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