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Chapter 13-4

"But I have to face it. And I have to face the fact that," she looked down, feeling her eyes sting. "With everything I went through, my self-esteem...it...I-I don't love myself."

He took one of her hands from around her calf, squeezing her fingers. "I wish you did. I wish you loved yourself as much as I love you."

"You're right. Everything you said is right. I need to work on myself. I want to start going to therapy. I want to...I want to let everything go and feel like I'm not...halfway here and halfway back home, in that same closet with my brother. You," Marley looked up at him. Her whole life, her entire world. "You deserve all of me. Not parts. Especially when some of them are mean."

"Marley?"

"Yeah?" She was staring at him still. She could look at him forever. She hoped that's what they were. Forever. Despite everything she makes him carry. It took him half a minute to finally speak. "It's my turn," he whispered. "To call a break."