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The Bartender Took Her Keys, and the Truth Came With Them

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The phone rang at 11:40 on a Thursday, and her voice was a slur of vowels asking me to come save her.

I want to start before that, though, because the call only landed the way it did because of everything that came before it. For three weeks I had been the kind of unsettled you can't name. Nothing you could point to. Tamsin had started saying she was "swamped" in a tone that didn't match the word. She'd taken to charging her phone in the kitchen overnight, face down, when for two years it had lived on her nightstand. Small things. The kind of things you tell yourself you're imagining because the alternative makes your stomach drop through the floor.

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