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On our last night,at a table by ourselves while our friends gyrated on the dance floor She leaned over tomarried in less than a month?"

My ansas no I couldn't believe it I didn't want to believe it I couldn't spend , predictable Emma Mills It was selfish ofSean and ether

So I called it off

The day I got back fro rooether by going to estate sales and fleato restore pieces of furniture ourselves to save money It reether, there had been sweet ether But coh for me anymore

When I had explained e didn't belong together, that ere no good for each other, Sean had been shocked and devastated He didn't understand where this was coht I had been happy all these years And a part of h

Sean's coaxing and tears weren't enough to swayto it As e and return all the presents, I was relieved I felt like I had narrowly escaped

Noas furtheringto New York City I had accepted a job as an executive assistant there It was several steps belowthat would get room

I was taking the train to New York since I had sold my car back in Maryland I had no need for a car in New York and allsuitcases Sean and I had broken the lease on our apart the profits, so I was literally traveling with all

I was hter of a fa in New York for a few years Claire was an aspiring actress with a revolving door of rooo where the jobs took them We had already talked on the phone several times and I was excited to meet her in person

The train conductor called out the i stop of Penn Station and I felt a quiver of excitee of twenty-five, I was going toto beco New York had to offer

Before the train even ca out of their seats to rush off the train, haphazardly pulling their suitcases froe coe worn and unfashionably burgundy-colored suitcases with resignation Having never traveled ht these suitcases at a second-hand store when I made the decision to move to New York and had stuffed them to the brim