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Everything We Almost Said
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Theo laughs, but it's shaky. "You pick now? After a year of bus stops?" He sits anyway. "Fine. Then say the rest of it. The thing neither of us says. I'm not getting up until one of us does." He folds his arms and waits.
Mara breaks first. "I love you," she says. "I've loved you for months and I kept thinking there'd be more time." Theo's arms unfold. "There's time," he says. "Right now. We have right now." He takes her hands across the toast and the cold coffee and doesn't let go.
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