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Another softer laugh "It’s for a year, just one year, and then you’ll be here"

"Yeah"

There was another moment of silence before he asked, "Are you okay otherwise?"

No "Yes" Hearing the tea outside, and I lifted my head "I will be I proround"

"Yeah" God, there was so h His presence would’ve been He should’ve been there, right with h "I love you"

"I love you back" He see, Saht in my throat

He said, "You already are, but don’t be afraid of it Be you, who you are on the inside You won’t lose anything" He paused again "You won’t lose anyone"

The door burst open and the first of the football players took off pastopen the doors back for the field As they went by, their sounds deafening, I said into the phone, "I will I aht I heard him say the saan broke off from the line of players and stood next to ht it, and pulled ripped in my hand My knuckles hite around it

He asked, "Mase?"

I nodded The eood kind of emotion I wiped a tear away

He threw an arm arounda sniveling, crying mess--" I elbowed him in the side and he chuckled, "--and cootten thewith Twitter alerts Logansaweso to make shirts Yours can say Kade Crew on the back of it How about that? But no fahed It felt good to laugh As we started through the cars, I saw the down the path in our direction They atching the players run by the sure to stay out of the way As the last of the players ran past them, they turned and saw us Only a few yards separated us

Logan dropped his arm and moved forward a step I touched the back of his ar our positions, I was the one in front by a small inch Two parked cars were between us and the hands This was his wife He had left and not come back because of this woman Their shared history was the span of my entire life It was then that I realized I’d been jealous of her I ht he would be around, and lost him to her It took him a year to return