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Eva arrives at a townhouse—the address Shane texted her, begging her to come. He asks her in, but she declines and asks him for a favor. He agrees to teach at her daughter’s school before she can even get the whole question out. Shane suggests that they start over and be friends, and he asks about her plans for the day. Looking overwhelmed, she says her life is falling apart but declines to talk about it. He convinces her to play hooky, and they walk down the street to a mini-amphitheater and sit down.
Eva asks about the house that Shane is staying in; it’s James Baldwin’s house, where he wrote Another Country. Eva points out that it is the book that Shane was reading when they met as teenagers, and he smiles. Eva accuses him of being sentimental, but Shane retorts that she remembered as well, so they both are. He booked the house hoping for inspiration and tells Eva about how hard it has been to write since he got sober. Shane asks Eva how she stopped cutting, and she explains that she went to a psychiatric center for self-harm after they saw each other last. Though Shane is sober and Eva has stopped the self-harm, they both admit to each other that they miss their old coping mechanisms.
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