My husband threw me out onto the street in a towel for refusing to live with my mother-in-law, but he never imagined that…

“Yes.”

Pause.

“Now I am.”

She looked out at the city.

Everything the same.

Except her.

“Do you know the most ironic part?” she said.

“What?”

She smiled faintly.

“I was never weak.”

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Pause.

“I was just in the wrong place.”

And for the first time in a long time…

She breathed freely.