Clare bought a cactus

From Lidl, actually

Proud of herself, she asked me to step into the kitchen:

"I've bought something new."

I gazed blindly around in confusion, my eyes eventually alighting on the pepper pot.

"You bought some new pepper?"

The new cactus was on the window ledge. I had been staring right at it.

It may be called 'Blindsight'.

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She joked that if she ran away and replaced herself with another woman, it might be .. well, two weeks before I realised.