These Two Fingers
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3 min readJan 26, 2021
We try to never be alone.
It worked well for a few years, and then suddenly the room was empty, we were three glasses of wine into the evening, and one of us was standing way too close. I tried not to brush her hair from her face or reach out at all, but somehow I found my arm around her waist without me noticing how it got there.