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Chapter 14 - Chloe Returns the Last Six Hundred

Chloe ended the engagement.

Months later, she brought me a box of old photographs Trevor had kept.

Me in a diner uniform.

Trevor studying at our kitchen table.

A crooked Christmas tree.

In one photograph, I was laughing.

For years I remembered that apartment only as poverty.

The pictures reminded me there had also been hope.

Trevor did not own every memory simply because he eventually poisoned

the relationship.

Then Chloe placed six hundred dollars on the table.

“He told me about the jar.”

“You don’t owe me that.”

“I know. I just want the story to end with someone putting it back.”

I pushed the money toward her.

“Then let’s donate it.”

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We sent it to a local women’s housing program.

That ending felt better.

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