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Everything We Almost Said
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"Then I'll come with you," Mara hears herself say. Theo blinks. "You'd leave Chicago? Your mom, your job, all of it?" "For you, yeah," she says. "I think I would." Saying it out loud makes it real, and terrifying, and somehow right.
Theo's whole face changes, like a light coming on. "Okay," he breathes. "Okay, yes. Come to Seattle." They're both grinning like idiots in a snowed-in diner. It's reckless and barely planned, but for the first time in a year, nothing about them feels like almost. They start making lists on a napkin.
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