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Tonight is the party for Lisa. We’ll grow taller like her with each drink and reach up to the sky with twisting limbs and sprout friendship. Her arrival has only made me happy for Brian. I realize now that what I thought was real love was the devotion of a friend distilled with mad infatuation. Our marriage is over, and though I cannot say I’m not a little sad, I am thrilled at his contentment. All the throttling irritations that pent up in his vein warped arms and concentrated in the jumbled monologue of his anger have dissipated. And my heart used him to free me, because I am free from Teddy, and the world has cracked open and spills promise. Every day now is the day that I know resurrection.