Mark and I got divorced.
Mark’s mom started to cry.
I flew back to France.
At the airport, Mark and his mom came to see
me off.
Mark seemed skinnier.
He told me to be careful.
“Even though we’re divorced, don’t find
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someone too fast.”
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“Why not?” I asked.
“We were together for twenty years. It’s only
been a few years. You can’t forget me so fast. It’ll make me sad.”
I rolled my eyes.
Ever since Mark and I had gotten divorced, we
had started to act like we did before.
My flight was called.
Mark was going on and on.
I picked up my suitcase and left.
Outside the airport, Mark looked sadly at the plane.
His mom looked at his thin face and started to
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“You’re so stupid,” she said.
“Why did you do that to Amy? Now that you’ve changed, why can’t you win her back?”
Mark laughed sadly.
“How long do you think I have left? I don’t want
to hold Amy back.”
That day, he had been going to buy Amy her
favorite wontons, but he had blacked out.
When he woke up, he was in the hospital.
The doctors said he had something growing on
his liver.
It was terminal.
He would die in three months.
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He had seen what cancer patients looked like at
the end.
He didn’t want Amy to see him like that.
He still wanted her to remember him looking good.
But he didn’t want Amy to be with another man.
He would be jealous.
Three months later, I got a phone call from Mark.
I thought he wanted to bother me again, but it
was Mark’s mom.
“Amy,” she said, “Mark is gone.”
I didn’t understand.
Looked her where he want
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I asked her where he went.
But all I heard was Mark’s mom crying.
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I remembered Mark’s thin face.
He was dead.
Mark was dead.
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When I got back, he had already been buried.
The picture on the gravestone was of Mark
when he was twenty–two.
He was smiling.
He was wearing the suit he had worn when we got married.
I just stared at the picture.
I remembered Mark when he was twenty–two.
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Mark was dead.
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When I got back, he had already been buried.
The picture on the gravestone was of Mark
when he was twenty–two.
He was smiling.
He was wearing the suit he had worn when we got married.
I just stared at the picture.
I remembered Mark when he was twenty–two.
Amy didn’t think she would ever separate from Mark.
Mark didn’t think he would ever betray Amy.
