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“I don’t know how to be with someone who makes me feel lonely when I’m right next to them,” she told him the next morning. Six months in, Emma found herself crying in
He was sitting in the back, nursing a cold coffee, not reciting or performing, just listening. She noticed him because he laughed—not at the poets, but with them, a soft, surprised sound, like he kept forgetting joy was allowed. After the reading, he held the door for her, and outside, rain had just started falling. Instead, love arrived as a slow tide—eroding her
And that, she realized, was more than enough.
She blinked. “How did you—?”
