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CHAPTER 73
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2026-05-24 14:39:21Emma's POV
I taught him about bread for two hours. Not literally. We don't have dough or a kitchen scale or the right flour, so it's all paper and talking and my hands moving through explanations while he sits across the island and listens like I'm saying something worth recording. That's the thing about him I keep returning to. He doesn't listen the way most people listen, waiting for the pause where they can speak
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