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I wanted to hear my mom laugh again.
Eli’s cheeks were so red that I swore I saw flames flickering.
Cool metaphor
Wink and Honey had been married for over half a century, but that was always how he introduced her.
“My bride”
“So I suppose this afternoon wasn’t enough,” the guy continued. “You gotta maul my face even more?”
The last time someone had mentioned my laugh, it was my dad saying he missed it.
Ouch
He nodded. “Okay.” I nodded back. “Okay.”
TFIOS coded
Is this what it felt like?
When we made accidental eye contact, he blew me a kiss…and
My heart hammered. “Okay?” “Okay.” He nodded and held out his pinkie. “I swear.”
More TFIOS?
a familiar figure standing by the far wall. Not awkwardly or anything—it looked like he was waiting for someone.
“You’re wicked,” I said. “And you go wild for it,”
How did we only have four days left?
No lamplight seeped through his blinds, so I suspected he was asleep. Do I go in? I wondered before I heard a sleepy, “I knew you’d come.”
Even if this truly was just temporary, it felt like much more. Something special, something singular, something I’d been waiting for for a very long time.
I shut my eyes. Killer. There it was—not one of our ever-changing terms of endearment but my special, sweet, inside-joke nickname.
I laughed. “You sound like you knew her.” “Well,” he said, shifting on the bench, “actually…”
No no…what is this? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Whatever he was gonna say I don’t wanna know
“Meredith, I think I need to clear something up—”
Nah. WHAT IS THIS?
she loved to cook, but we had ordered a lot of takeout after Claire died. Now, though, it was like she’d gotten her groove back.
“I love you to pieces, but Claire was my mini-me.”
I feel like this is a recurring theme. Just how much everyone LOVED Claire over Meredith and it’s kinda shitty. But I guess people are shitty
“Your hair, Mer! Forever my favorite color!”
my heart was fluttering so fast it felt like it was going to fly out of my chest. And I knew why.
“You’re wicked,” I said. “You go wild for it,”
I loved his name.
my heart… It swooped and soared the way it always did around Wit.
I love love love his nickname for her
“I adore you,”
“Please tell me you know how much I adore you.”
MY HEART
“I know you don’t like hearing this,” I heard him say, “and I know I promised not to tell you, but you are pretty, Killer. You’re pretty, beautiful, stunning, mesmerizing.” He paused. “But that’s not all you are. You’re everything Claire said and more. Clever, funny, caring, lively, strong, brave—all of it. You are all of it.”
“And I do know how much you adore me,” he whispered. “I just wish it was as much as I adore you.”
Crying
“I am your biggest fan,” he said. “I have always been your biggest fan. I will stand by you no matter what.”
a year from now, I would be here—on the Vineyard, on The Farm, with my favorite people.
the clouds had cleared so the sun could shine, Claire working her magic.
my heart swooped. Then soared.
“But only for you, Killer.”
Ahhhh
I love you, Stephen. I adore you, but I love you even more.
“I love you, too, Killer,”
Sending my love anywhere and everywhere, Mer
when I saw his handwriting… Well, it made me melt and my whole day better.
“Because I adore you,
