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Where it all converges
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2026-04-14 07:00:00IVY POV
The night lasted longer than I thought it would.We talked until the wine was almost gone and the candles burned down to small pools of wax. At some point, Zoe kicked off her heels and followed me into my room “just for five minutes.”She was asleep in two.I lay beside her, staring at the ceiling. The city hummed outside the penthouse windows... distant traffic, a faint siren, life moving on like it always does.My phone was face down on t
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