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The waiting had a texture I had not anticipated, a grain to it, and I spent those weeks learning the feel of it the way you learn the feel of a new cloth. It was not empty time. That is the thing no one tells you about waiting for a large thing: you imagine it as a blank interval, a held breath, a nothing to be got through until the something arrives. It is not. It is a substance. It has weight and presence; it sits in the flat with you; it gets into the food and the conversations and the space between us in bed at night, the way a houseguest you cannot see is nonetheless always faintly there. We were three in the flat already, in a sense — myself, Saloni, and the waiting — and the waiting was the loudest of us, for all that it never said a word. I had imagined waiting as a passive...
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