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The First Time

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Mira

We argued for the first time on a Saturday.

Not the long-suppressed eruptions of the early weeks, the kind freighted with seven years of accumulated grievance and managed so carefully on both sides that even a direct statement felt like a controlled detonation. This was something different. This was the argument of two people who were close enough now to disagree without the disagreement being about everything else underneath it.

It started over something small. That is how the real argume
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