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into the pool. Water splashed across the deck, and everyone laughed too loudly. The party tried to restart around us.

I stood slowly.

There had been a time when I would have apologized for arriving. I would have driven the children to a roadside motel, paid for a room I could not afford, and spent the weekend pretending the rejection did not hurt.

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