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EMMY
“There’s always a guy involved,” Hallie muttered, and granted, she hadn’t had the best of luck with men until the most recent one, but Paige needed to tell her story. I put a finger to my lips.
“Go on.”
“We met two years ago when we were both at Berkeley,” Paige said. “It was my first year of college, and Jez was on an exchange study program during his third, and we ended up living next door to each other. Then we started dating. I thought he was the one, you know?”
“So, what went wrong?”
“Well, he had to finish his degree in Edinburgh, so we went long-distance, and I missed him so, so much. We’d been together that whole year, and then he was just…gone. The loss, it felt almost like grief. A piece of my heart was on the other side of the ocean, and even though we called each o
