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“I’ins, but I cut her off She has nothing to be sorry about

“No” I wave her off “It’s why I’ It’s hard to e is never home”

“So, why didn’t you stay? Try to make it work?”

“The truth?” I look her dead in the eyes, and she nods “I didn’t want to I mean, I did… but I didn’t I tried to want it, but deep down, I couldn’t Every tiain My skin would literally crawl”

“Leave her, or just leave in general?”

“In a e, aren’t they one and the same?”

“Maybe… I don’t know,” she ad that time I only saw him a few times”

“I don’t know either I see what my parents have and I want that, but when I ith Laura, I didn’t feel it I felt restless, and the idea of starting a family… She deserved to have all that So, I’m happy she finally has it all and with a man ill be by her side”

“Ian and I never discussed kids It wasn’t part of our five-year plan” She stares toward the water, her eyes slightly glossing over “I don’t even know if he wanted kids Guess it doesn’t matter now”

“What do you want?”

She sits up and throws her legs over the side of the lounge chair “I want to curl up in bed and watch so “I’m off to bed Thank you for today” She leans over and kisses reat husband I think you just have to find the woman you’re meant to be with”

As she walks away, thoughts of the day Laura asked for a divorce resurface “One day you’re going to fall in love and you won’t want to run away You’ll want to be with the wo so you can meet her”