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Kenji folded her fingers into a soft fist. He held it between both his palms and whispered, “ Yurushi .” Forgiveness. Not for Tom. For herself.

“I’m sorry,” she said.

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“I know.”

Another pause. The sound of him lighting a cigarette, then putting it out. “I miss your hands,” he said. “Even when they’re making fists.” Kenji folded her fingers into a soft fist

“Your husband,” he said, in halting English. “He is not enemy. He is also tired.”

Margaret, skeptical of anything without a Yelp review, complied. She lay face-down, her pale skin marked by the red lines of a laptop charger she’d fallen asleep on during the flight. She expected kneading, deep pressure, the kind of pummeling she got from the Thai place back in Wicker Park. For herself

Margaret cried then—not loud sobs, but a quiet leak of salt water that soaked into the face cradle. He did not wipe her tears. He simply pressed two fingers to the base of her throat, where the crying turned into a long, shuddering exhale.