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"Your turn," he told Ashley

"Marshall Donegal, you get your little ethereal backside out here! You’re afraid to face your wife You’re afraid that she grew beyond her love for you, because life becaone Come on, you two kids--I think this is it Your chance at…your chance at eternal happiness," she added softly

At first, nothing

And then slowly, very slowly, and like pale illusions in the bright daylight, they both began to appear She walked slowly froed from the side of the tomb

She eased out to him

He took a step

They ran into one another’s arether, they faded into the sunlight

There were tears on Ashley’s cheeks

Jake smoothed them away "Hey, they’ve found their eternal happiness," he told her, lifting her chin and dusting her lips with a gentle kiss

She smiled

"And I’ve found rew passionate, it was suddenly disrupted

"Jake!" Jackson called frohed "Well, that’s my world now, I’m afraid"

She didn’t release him; she held him close for another minute

"Jake, your world is noorld, in so ain

But…

Jackson was a decent fellow He’d just have to wait