She remembered how her words had flowed from her like silk threads, weaving a false sense of reason around her mother's mind, wrapping her desperate desire to marry him in a cloak of logic and rationality. She had left no point untouched. “He's suitable... There's nothing wrong with him...” And finally, she had insisted that she would remain close to her. But beneath that mask, her heart had been pounding wildly, as though afraid its secret would be exposed. Her mother had listened, her expression caught somewhere between firmness and tenderness. She had not been easy to convince. But in the end, she had surrendered—not because of the strength of her daughter's arguments, but because a mother's heart, no matter how much it resists, eventually weakens before persistence mixed with love. That little white lie, as she had called it, was what had finally given her the green light. Yet she knew her mother was not completely convinced. Her mother had agreed reluctantly, but only
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