Ghosts and ShadowsChapter 7 Sad Stories
I had thought it would be harder, seeing her in the flesh. She'd been a memory for two years, and a painful memory at that, but somehow ... somehow, I felt better. I realized that hearing about her, imagining what she had become, visualizing what she looked like after two years, was not the same thing. She could have been dead for the past two years and everyone could have been lying to protect my feelings. Crazy, I know, but things like that crept into my thoughts sometimes late at night....