Slowly, then all at once
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A borrowed pen
Clara forgot a pen at the farmers market sign-up sheet. Theo had two, and a theory that this counted as fate.
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The apartment with the crooked floor
We moved in together and learned that everything rolls toward the kitchen. We kept the apartment anyway. We kept each other, too.
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The question, in the orchard
Back at Hollis Farm, under the apple trees, with a ring Theo had been carrying for three weeks of "perfect moments" that weren't. This one was.


