Chapter 54

Tidying

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She stopped taking the same route home.

She did it without deciding to, the way she had once started checking exits — down through the hospital's east stair instead of the main doors, out past the laundry, a different bus. On the third night she caught herself doing it and stood on the pavement outside a bakery in Kadikoy feeling extremely stupid and extremely frightened in roughly equal parts.