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Everything We Almost Said
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Theo doesn't sit. He stays standing, hand on the back of the chair. "And then what?" he asks. "We stay tonight, and tomorrow we go back to almost? I can't keep doing almost with you, Mara. It's killing me a little." His voice cracks on the last word.
"Then stop doing almost," Mara says. She stands, walks around the table, and kisses him before she can talk herself out of it. The whole diner seems to hold its breath. When they break apart, Theo laughs, stunned. "A year," he says. "We wasted a whole year."
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