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“When Ellis fucks up, he owns it. Even if it takes him a little while. And when he does, he fixes it with singular determination. He is unfailingly...
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even when they have a hard time letting him. He’s why I wanted to become a firefighter to begin with. I knew he’d stand against a wall of flame if it threatened someone else, so I thought maybe he should have someone watching out for him, too. My brother has saved my life in the literal sense, more than once, so when I fell off a mountain in a ball of fire, all that went through my...
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“The reality is I’ve never known another human more unflinchingly brave th...
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“It was easy to admire Wren from the beginning, if only for the fact that she was the one person who could really shake Ellis. In all my memories, I realize that her mere presence in his life made him a more adventurous kid. He was braver about trying little things, and I think that probably trained him for the big things he’d end up taking on later, like when he had to take on raising all of us when he was only eighteen. And about that … he never truly did it alone. My siblings and I saw Wren c...
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“She danced between being a new mom, being a parental figure to us, to becoming our very best friend with more grace than anyone could ask. Wren thinks we absorbed her into our family, but she’s the one who made us into hers. “Watching you two lay the foundation for a life together and then go on to build a beautiful one was o...
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“Seeing you lose it for a time was gutting. Some of us, who shall remain nameless, were too scared to hope you could figure it out again. Those unnamed people should have known better. Hoping with one another is how you two got so brave in t...
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“I love you. I’m honored to stand here with you today and help you both...
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I’ll run my fingertips over the vows on his skin and the birds on his back. A hummingbird for Sage, a crow for Micah, a red-tailed hawk for Silas, a swallow for Sam, and a wren for me. I asked him if he knew that wrens mated for life when he got it, to which he laughed and said no. I got a matching wren on my hip last Christmas, because if he can carry all of them, I can carry him.
One day, when we’re very old and gray, one of us will open our eyes to a day that the other won’t, but we’ll smile knowing how full life has been, knowing how we spent forever. Everything left of it, together.
