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The Right Reasons

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Nick's POV

I proposed to Nora.

Not with a dramatic event or a performance. We were at her dining table one evening going over revised structural plans for the development project that Luke had inadvertently identified a solution for. She was annotating something. I was reading something else.

I looked up and said: "I would like to marry you."

She put her pen down.

"Say that again," she said.

"I would like to marry you," I said. "Not as a question. As a statement of what I want. I know you have
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