“Because youve survived, there is a next strategy.”

“You cannot trust yourself, she agreed, bed-rock calm. Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.”

“This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.”

“You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.”

“Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.”

“You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.”

“We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.”

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