They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

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He nodded. “Suddenness has its own violence.”

“It does,” I agreed.

We sat in quiet for a long moment. For the first time since his arrival, the silence between us didn’t feel like a wall. It felt like a pause in a piece of music, both of us waiting to hear what came next.

“Chopin,” he said eventually, “is overrated as a technician and profoundly underrated continue reading …