her he had tried to find her after high school. He said she had been gone when he looked and that someone told him her family had moved away for treatment. He said his mother got sick shortly after that and everything contracted quickly, but that he had tried.
Emily told him she had thought he had forgotten about her.
He looked at her like that was the most absurd thing he had ever heard.
He told her she was the only person he had ever wanted to find.
Thirty years of poor timing and unfinished feeling, and that was the sentence that finally broke her open completely.
Where They Are Now
They are together now.
Slowly and honestly, the way adults move toward something when they carry enough history to know how easily things can change and how much it matters not to take any of it for granted.
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