I couldn’t laugh then. For
months afterwards, anyone
who believed they had known
me in the slightest would catch
my eye for long enough to con
vey disbelief and disdain before
moving on to wherever they
thought they were going. I’m
no Cassandra, but who nom
inated me to be the one person
in the room who could see the
future. Little did I know that
they had all one-upped me,
each having dispensed with
their sobriety weeks or even
months earlier, they had all
peered into the same future
that only now I could glimpse.
