she only stopped crying for a few seconds at a time she could only take a few steps before her knees would give out under her in the stairwell again in the hallway on the second floor across from his door she sank in hysterical sobs I asked her what was wrong but she couldn't answer me I told her it would be all right but she couldn't hear me I sat for three hours in the hallway on the second floor across from his door and calmly stroked her head - bald in patches from where she had pulled out fistfuls of hair when I thought she couldn't cry anymore I dragged her like a rag doll through the snow back to our room put her in bed and after she cried herself to sleep I did the same
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