You like to think every woman has one, and he just happens to be yours.
As I've said on a few occasions while on tour for this novel, ideas very rarely come to me fully formed. I usually have to massage them a bit, wait for them to come into focus organically. So when I do get sudden bursts of inspiration, I listen.
This sentence was one such occurrence. I was walking my dog (a lot of epiphanies happen while I walk my dog) and I can still remember where I was and which portion of sidewalk I was looking at when it came through my head.
At the time, I was writing the novel in the first person, so the very first version said "I like to think every woman has one, and he just happens to be mine." I later switched that sentence—and, well, many others—to the second person, when I decided it would be the best way to write this character's point of view.
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