Staying with him
Then she put her cold feet under his leg, deliberately, because she knew he hated it, which was the entire reason she did it, and he made the wounded noise he made about her cold feet, and outside the rain kept coming down, and the afternoon went absolutely nowhere, and it was, she would understand later, with no better word available to her, one of the best days of her whole life, and not one single thing had happened in it.
That was the part nobody had ever warned her about, in all the years she had spent advising other people on how to find it. Happiness did not announce itself. It did not arrive with music. It turned up disguised as an ordinary Sunday with burned eggs and a dramatic hous
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