Letting Go
Josh Lyman, after The Ticket but before The Al Smith Dinner, 100 words.
He kept it six months longer than he should have.
He should never have bought it in the first place, really, but he was going to give it to her when she got back from Gaza. But they were out of synch in a way they never were before, and he couldn't give it to her then.
So he waited for things to improve. But they didn't, and she left.
He should have pawned it then, but still hoping, he kept it. But now, seeing how she looked when he didn't hire her...
He tossed the ring into the Potomac.