“I wasn’t quick enough.” He said it not with bitterness but as a fact I needed to know. “I didn’t have anything to offer a girl like her back when we met. I thought I could though, one day. But while I was gone, she got too far ahead of me. She became that girl, that woman, she always dreamed of being, and I hadn’t gotten all the way to being that man. It took me too long to catch up. It took too long for the war to be over and for me to get back, and by the time I did, I still wasn’t that man even though she was that woman. I didn’t want to find her again until I had a version of myself worth
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