Our home. In the middle of the floor, I saw something new: two pieces of carpet scraps we’d found left over from the previous tenant, arranged into a heart. And on top of that heart, a Vitamix. I let loose an audible gasp. Jay had secretly saved and worked overtime for months to buy it for me. He may have misread me as straight prior to our relationship, but over the course of our years together, he consistently saw me for who I was and showed his love for that person through small kindnesses and large gestures alike. I knelt on the kitchen floor of the apartment we’d soon share and marveled
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