She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.

NEWYORKER: Alone

"He will empty the dishwasher and not say anything to me, and I will get him back and take out the garbage, " she says.

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