Chapter 54. What Came Home With Her

The Monday interview changed the article.

Diana had expected another account of the workshop's history. Instead, Sofia's aunt told her about the year she had wanted to leave it, and the argument that had finally persuaded her brother to put her name beside his on the invoices.

There was nothing quaint about the way she told it.

Diana crossed out half a page of notes.

On Tuesday, she sat at the hotel desk with the window open and rewrote the beginning. The piece became less pretty and more interesting. She worried Iris would think she had misunderstood the assignment.

She sent the new outline anyway.

Then she called Gabriel.

“I've made it harder for myself.”

“That sounds familiar.”

She told him why. He listened while she found the shape of the story by trying to explain it to him.

“You sound certain about what matters,” he said when she stopped.

“I'm not certain I can write it.”

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