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“I’m leaving for a six-month tour.”
“What?” He nearly choked on his whiskey. Of course he knew what he heard. He needed to hear Midge say it again to make it real.
“With Shy Baldwin.” “Fuck, that’s amazing!”
Lenny was genuinely happy for her. She was getting what she deserved. Maybe he was too. He surely didn’t deserve a girl like her. He knew that for certain.
“And Lenny, god, if it wasn’t for you I probably wouldn’t even be going,” she said.
Wrong. So wrong. “You did this yourself. I had nothing to do with it. You’re gonna be huge. Bigger than me or Jack Paar or Bob Newhart or literally anybody else. You’re gonna do fucking amazing.”
“I’m not so sure—“
No. She’s gonna make it. “Nope. You’re gonna do this.” He looked into her eyes as sincere as he possibly could be. Part of him wanted to ask her to stay, but Lenny knew he could never do that to her. He loved her, so he had to let her go. Wasn’t that some saying? “If you love something let it go?” Here’s to hoping she was his.