“Do you want to know when I started smiling again? It wasn’t because of another man or even because of how much I love the shop. It was when I realized your dad’s love was all around me still. Each time I heard a guitar strumming a song, or when tulips would rebloom in the spring, or any time I looked at you. You’re right, the grief doesn’t go away because it’s really just the extension of our love, and he loved me until the end of his life. I’ll love him until the end of mine. I don’t regret a second. And I’d do it all over again to feel an ounce of our happiness, even knowing we’d have a
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