FORGOTTEN IDENTITY
"The doubts are the evidence that you take it seriously. If you stopped having them it would mean you'd stopped paying attention."
I looked at him, this man who had once told me that love wasn't a contest with a single winner, who had learned that truth through years of genuine, costly growth, and felt the doubt settle into its proper place, which was not gone but managed, not resolved but held, carried alongside everything else as part of the weight of something real.
"Thank you," I said.
"Always," he said simply.
Outside, the summer evening continued its slow, golden fade, and the garden settled into its nighttime quiet, and the house held all of us in the shape it had taken years to build
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