\u201cHow long have you known?\u201d I asked. He pulled out a folded lease and laid it beside the grocery list. An apartment across town. His signature at the bottom. Dated Monday. I looked at the list beneath it: coffee, onions, the cereal he liked. On Monday, he had asked me to buy enough for two weeks. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to tell you,\u201d he said. I switched off the burner. Neither of us moved toward the table.<\/p>\n
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