“Get out! I don’t want to see you! Just looking at you disgusts me! Jim, let me make this clear today: even if there’s still the tiniest bit of place for you in my heart, I’ll find a way to crush it out! You think time will make you worth something? You think apologizing can erase what you had with Clarie? You think this pain will stop just because you say sorry? That my dead child can somehow come back to life?”

As I said those words, I wasn’t even sure if I was acting or speaking from the heart.

All I knew was that my heart felt numb.

So...