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"I have become the invisible woman. I don't know the precise moment when it happened, when I began to fade from view like the Cheshire cat, my face dimming until only the ghost of my smile remains... I noticed he no longer seemed to look at me, but instead looked through me, as if I had turned transparent. Once your husband stops looking at you, you begin to feel the rest of the world has stopped looking, as well. There was a time when I could catch a man's eye just by wearing a short skirt and high heels. And I was attractive. The [me] who once was: confident and serene. Ready to love and be loved. That woman is gone now. In her place is a woman whom no one seems to see, a woman who walks into rooms unnoticed and unacknowledged." (Tess Garritsen, excerpt from "No Rest For The Dead".