Cash hadn’t ever been able to stand the idea of waiting on her to accomplish her goals when it meant she had to leave Yearly for a little while. In the heat of anger, Rebecca declared she was going anyway, and Johnny—Cash—clammed up and went home. The next morning, Rebecca had found a note on her parents’ front porch, refusing a long-distance relationship and wishing her well. Then Rebecca packed up and left, three days sooner than she intended to, taking comfort in the plan she had. She stuck to it and had turned nothing into something. Fate sometimes seemed cruel, but it was a mercy that she
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