…I woke up with her laying by my side. I was neither young man nor old fool. The weight of my mistakes were in my jaw and pulling inside my chest. She smelled of life and hope and wonder and all of the things love is made of. She rustled from her sleep and asked me if I was dreaming. “No,” I say. “I wasn’t.”
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