“I used to spend a lot of time imagining my future,” I told her. “I’d make up little scenarios with people as soon as I met them. What would we eat for lunch on a rainy day? If we went to Disneyland together, what ride would we go on first? That kind of thing. I loved to do it. It made me believe that I could one day have so much more than I did. And then I got married for real. I lived out all my scenarios. Ethan and I used to make quesadillas on rainy days. We had Disneyland season passes, and we always started on Indiana Jones. It all looked lovely in the scrapbook of my mind. But the
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