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“You think they’re wrong?”

He was close, so close she could have touched hied suddenly to do it, but she held back “Are they?”

“When you come home, we’ll talk ”

“What if—” slipped out of herto speak

“What if what?”

“What if I still don’t knohat to say?” she finally said

“After twenty years?”

“It went by fast ”

“It’s one question, Mere Are you in love with me?”

One question

How could the whole of an adult life funnel down to that?

As the silence expanded, he reached for a framed picture on his desk

“This is for you,” he said

She looked down at it, feeling the start of tears It was their wedding picture He’d kept it on his desk all these years “You don’t want it on your desk anymore?”

“That’s not why I’ it to you ”