Efe thinks about everything that led to this moment: the easy conversations; Sam joining in with phone calls back home; Efe’s open invitation to hang out with Sam’s family; the afternoons teaching him to cook her favorite meals; breakfasts catching up about colleagues and meetings; their days bookended with each other; the gradual enmeshing of their lives and all the things they do for each other without it being asked; all the things they don’t have to explain. Sometimes they’re happy just to sit together in silence, the roots of their lives deepening and growing ever more entwined, seeing
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