She was getting better. She wanted curtains.

Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”
3 min readJan 25, 2021

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She wasn’t in that place anymore.

She wasn’t in the place where she could claim emotional disturbance and walk into the ocean, or murder her ex-husband and his new girlfriend.

She had woken up that morning and thought that maybe she needed new curtains. And then, she wanted to throw a tantrum. She didn’t want to care about new curtains. She wanted to stay in…

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Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”

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