Three days later, Marina walked out of the courthouse with the divorce papers in hand. She was smiling. Not out of revenge, but out of liberation.
Andrei was waiting for her outside, awkwardly with his hands in his pockets.
— Marina… are you sure this is what you want?
She looked him in the eye, for the last time.
— I’m sure of only one thing, Andrei: that I am finally choosing someone who has ignored me for years. Me.
She turned and walked away. Not towards the past, but towards the life she was just about to live. For real.
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