Chapter 47

• It was one thing to move on when you didn’t have contact with the person who’d hurt you; it was another thing entirely when they exploded back into your life on a regular basis.
• I had to learn how to manage those feelings and move on now that we lived in the same town. I’d thought that last night right before I’d gone a bit loopy, and although I regretted saying it all out loud, I sincerely hoped it would be enough for him to get the message.
• It’d been as cathartic as it had been awkward. I’d needed to say those things, and it was just unfortunate they’d happened to come out when I was drunk. Again, though, like Mum said, alcohol removed the barriers that sobriety had in place.