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the resources. You do, or
you could have. All you had
to do was ask for help.” Anger
oozes like blood from my pores.
Her anger is greater. No! she
shouts. You don’t understand.
I can’t ask for help from people
I turned my back on. People
I stole from. Lied to. Hurt.
People whose love I threw away.
Hunter
KRISTINA IS OUT OF WORDS
Good thing, because
that’s all they are. Words
without conviction
have no meaning.
I look
down the long table,
past turkey carcass and half-
eaten pie, and ignoring
the shock-iced eyes that stare
at her,
I measure her lowered
gaze, the foreign
language of her body.
And I
find
in the cold iron set
of her shoulders,
the boulders of her fists,
