Grief, Maddie had learned once already, didn't announce itself the way movies suggested. It didn't arrive as one dramatic collapse. It arrived as a hundred small absences stacked on top of each other until you noticed the shape of the hole they'd left.
She noticed it the first Sunday, when brunch happened without her — she'd claimed a work thing, real enough, a venue walk-through for the Castella...
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Chapter 30: The Quiet Kind of Loud
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