Chapter 38 False Comforts

• [CAMI]
• I dream of a world where I was never born.
• My mom’s healthy, glowing. She keeps her job at the university and spends her weekends teaching yoga instead of drowning herself in cheap wine. Claire never touches the shadows, but she meets Jake in some ordinary way, and they never marry, but they still find each other at coffee shops and birthdays, graying together over decades of inside jokes. No one’s running. No one’s bleeding. No one’s hiding behind a gun.