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— -What’s left to her was only time, which was stretched excruciatingly long by the slow, punctual train she took every day only to show her landlord that she still had a job.
Only once in my lifetime have I got the drunk blackout Rachel went through in “The Girl on The Train”. How many times had she got it? Countless. For some years the days she got it were more than those she didn’t, poor girl. But the last one — hopefully the last as she resolved to quit drinking in the end — got her all the lost memories back. She made it almost single-handed, having lost trust from everyone in her life after years of binge drinking. Only there was a trigger, a murder of a totally strange lady.
It was a perfect blackout. I only got half of it in mine, like almost every blackout of the sort. Still it was one of the weirdest moments in my life. I was in Daliang, China, visiting an equipment factory with my Korean colleagues. Like every business meeting in China, we finished the day by going to a restaurant where a drunk orgy was bound to take place. For me the last moment of the day was we coming to a Korean BBQ restaurant and I looking at the large header at the gate. The next moment was the next morning. I woke up in the hotel bed with a heavy head, dry mouth, and parched lips. But nothing seemed out of order, just another crazy business dinner. I still remembered we had…
