She took out his cookie cutters and handed them to him. Inside she was dying a little, but on the outside she smiled and just carried on. That was what she’d done when Butch’s wife had surprised him in the office, very pregnant and very in love with her cheating husband. It was what she’d done when her father had shown up at her elementary school drunk and rambling. It was what she’d do now. She’d get through this and find some kind of Christmas joy—if it could be found. “We aren’t going to think about this anymore,” she said. “I see you have some interesting cutters here.” She held up the robot. Will didn’t say anything and Penny turned away. He was shutting down again, for reasons she couldn’t fathom, and she couldn’t do this on her own. Not really. For her it came down to the fact that if he wouldn’t at least try to be happy, she was going to have to...what? She didn’t want to say goodbye.
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