When we reached her apartment building, Amanda thanked me and picked up her luggage. Just as she was about to go inside, I finally called after her. “Why did you really marry Eric?”She turned back with a smile. “You probably won’t believe me, but I saw him once during my second year of graduate school. He was waiting for someone outside the student apartments.“I was reading on my balcony. A girl in the apartment next door called his name. He looked up and smiled.”That smile on a warm spring day somehow stayed with a young woman who had never fallen in love before. She carried it with her until the day she met him again at the dinner arranged by their families.Before leaving, Amanda looked at me with tears in her eyes and an apology in her expression.After hesitating, she finally said, “Emma, what if I told you... What if I told you that I only learned about my dad’s debts a few days before the rest of you did? Would you believe me?”I looked at her calmly and said, “That’s s
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