First Face You’ll See
I want to be precise.
It was not that I forgave him in that instant, and it was not weakness, and it was not that I had not meant the things I had been composing.
It was that I had been frightened for four hours, and the person my nervous system has used to stop being frightened for thirteen years had just come into the room.
The leap is not a betrayal of yourself.
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