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"How did you know," he said with a soft smile, "that I alant to talk about her? No one ever really asks" He leaned back in his chair "She was the most incredible woman I'd ever met, and I was crazy in love with her Before I met her, I wasselfish and rich

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and thoughtless She ht and wrong, and after I'd asked the questions, nothing was ever the saesture "I would have died to spend a day with her, and God gave me years"

"How did you know you loved her?"

"How do you know it's raining out? Or that you're hungry or cold or tired? Darwin thought it was instinct at its sharpest-nature selecting a ht But when it hits you, it doesn't feel like science It feels like ic"

Selena remembered the first time she'd heard Ian's voice, the first time she'd looked in his blue eyes, the first time she'd felt his touch Every ic

"The way you feel about Ian," he said quietly

She laughed She was unable to hide her thoughts the way healthy people could Every thought, every eer than life to Selena; they filled her to bursting, hed and cry when no one else cried It was a simple fact "Yes ," She loved Ian, loved hih? Lately, she wasn't so sure At least, it didn't seeh for Ian

"Out with it, Selena I can see your "

"This wordhusband It troubles Ian much"

One eyebroinged upward "That's an understatement"

Sarcasnored it "What is a husband? Exactly"

He blew out his breath in a loud sigh that ended in another rattling cough "Well, on the most superficial level, you know that a man and a woman can marry Yes?"

"That was the next word I was going to seek a definition of Marry"

He steepled his fingers and rested his chin on his fingertips,