I loved my job and what our team created. I loved this vibrant, seaside city. And I loved Callum Flannelly. A bittersweet romance with the last man I expected to fall for had sutured the hole in my heart. I’d helped animate the tale of an Irish folk hero, but he’d served as my modest hero. My safe port through life’s storms. The wind in my sails. The eye patch to my peg leg, if you’ll excuse one last pirate-themed metaphor. Life is unpredictable and magnificent, full of irony and happenstance. And I knew I wanted to spend the rest of mine making that brave, devoted, privately sentimental man
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