Did everyone feel like this when they found who they wanted to spend the rest of their life with? Or maybe it’s because I’d known her for so many years. Because even before I was drafted, I liked her. But like … that wasn’t the fireworks and lightning and bigness that I always thought would accompany falling in love with someone. Adaline wasn’t fireworks and lightning. She was something softer, sneaking up on me until I couldn’t look away. A sunrise, maybe. A beginning point that changed so gradually you hardly noticed until the brightest, most vivid colors you’ve ever seen dominated the
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