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“I am happy either way.” I continued.<br />

I was trying to be supportive.<br />

“I won’t kill it.” She sobbed.<br />

“Great.” I said sitting down.<br />

“No. Not great. I wanted to study.”<br />

“You are young. You have your whole life ahead of you.” Maybe I was better at<br />

customer services than sales, wait, which one would this fall into?<br />

“I’ll never be in a disco again.” She had stopped sobbing and mucus bubbles<br />

were inflating and popping on her right nostril.<br />

I tried to ignore it but it had a rhythm that wouldn’t quit. She became self-<br />

conscious and rubbed her nose back with the inside of her wrist, she instantly<br />

looked like a pig. It was the first time I found her unattractive. I think she<br />

noticed as she headed back into the bathroom.<br />

I sat and stared out into the grey abyss that was the view from my window. <strong>The</strong><br />

Warsaw sky looked like someone had opened up Microsoft paint and put a grey<br />

paint can on the sky. I had no texture, no shades. It was flat and lifeless grey.<br />

Was it significant?<br />

Everything has significance if you attribute some to it but I wasn’t interested in<br />

playing fate and futures. Elly got pregnant because we weren’t safe. We weren’t

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