Now she had said it there was no going back but Marlena was beginning to doubt her intentions. She had meant to tell Vera how she had been feeling lately – as though it had all gone wrong, mostly – but now she hesitated. Her sister was normal, after all, and had done all the things that one was supposed to do, so how on earth could Lena possibly expose her to her world?

“I’m worried about Eugene,” she said instead, the lie rolling off her tongue as easily as air left her lungs. “About how he’s coping.”

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MJ: still raising the graphics bar as of 2022