Chapter 5
If I directly asked Laura for a divorce, she wouldn’t agree. The only way to break free was to erase my identity.
I went home. There were five days left before I would be gone.
Every single day I waited after Laura and Jock left before erasing every little trace of Laura in my life.
I gathered our wedding photos, wedding rings and the gift that she gave me…. I gathered them all and took them to the garden, dug a deep hole, threw all of them
in and lit the fire.
The flame burned away all the memories of our past and erased every trace of affection I had for her.
“Laura, there is no future between us anymore,” I said.
On the seventh day, I printed all the
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ncriminating photos of Laura and Jock ogether. Then I pasted them on every wall n the living room.
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Before I left, I decided to bid farewell to the it doctor who had restored my eyesight.
ived as I exited the clinic, to my surprise, I
potted Laura and Jock in the corridor.
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after aura did not dare to greet me because she egjeve ways told me she was working overtime.
Both of us pretended not to see each other. geheven used my cane to the front, sheetending I was still blind. As we brushed tookast each other, I felt nothing. There was ble, the anger nor hurt anymore. I had finally let
er go.
av all face I was gone, Laura panicked. She vervinoved Jock aside and barged into the
loctor’s office, then asked, “Doctor, is there. omething wrong with Jerome? Are his ture bets hurting again?”
ura looked so worried when she asked printed what the doctor said immediately made
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her panic.
The doctor explained, “There is nothing wrong with Jerome. His eyesight had fully recovered seven days ago. Don’t you know that General Manager Gibbons?
Then he continued, “He came here today to bid me goodbye. He told me he was going to leave this city.”
“No! This is impossible! Why didn’t Jerome tell me he had regained his eyesight?”
