That hurt, knowing she’d missed him becoming a man, the person he was standing in front of her. It felt like a loss she didn’t know she had been mourning. In her mind, the memory of him was stuck with his too-long wavy hair always falling in his eyes, and his skinny body made for running the fastest in school. What else had she missed? What had happened to him during all those years apart? Being kept in the dark now that she could grasp the magnitude of the changes that ten years without contact looked like was suddenly unbearable. She used to know what he did every minute of every day, heard
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