“Paisley, I’m in love with you. And it feels like a flash, and also a throb. You are a place where my heart can settle, but still be itself. Your laughter prompts my own, and I didn’t realize how important that was until I met you. To be connected, loved, cherished, to be inspired, to be grounded but not tethered, I knew none of that until you walked back into my life.” Klein grips my face the same way I have his, absorbing the moisture on my cheeks. “We had something back then, Paisley, and we have something today, and that tells me we’ll have something in twenty years. In forty. In fifty. We
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