“Hey,” I said. “You wanna know what real love is?” “What’s that?” he mumbled into my chest. “Real love is hard. And sometimes it hurts. Sometimes we need to change what was our normal course and take a different path. Sometimes everything we knew becomes something different, and we need to adapt. There might be medical appointments and we might have to change the way we shop for groceries or if we go out for lunch. But that’s just what we do because that’s what love is. It’s not all roses and sunshine. It’s laundry and dishes, bills and mortgages, and wet towels on the floor, or changing the
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