I slept in the studio that night. The first night apart since I'd said I loved him, and I spent it among the half-cleaned paintings and the smell of solvent, on the narrow cot my mother used to nap on when a restoration ran past midnight, and I did not sleep so much as lie very still inside the particular grief of discovering that the person you've finally let all the way in has a locked room in him with your name on the door.

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