Nonrefundable

by Ellie Garratt

Why do I stay with him? Love? No. Every day I spend with him is another 24 hours of justification, a marker of the nonrefundable price I pay for trying to make him see me as I truly am – the person who stayed. She had run away and left him for another man. I never would, no matter what the cost.

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Ellie Garratt is the author of Second Chances, which appears in the fundraising book 100 Stories for Haiti. She lives in the UK, and blogs here.