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I frowned “Well, I didn’t Not in tireat job offer in fucking Rhode Island”

“April told me about that today So she left, huh?”

“Yes And before she left, she told s ith us, even if we had to do it long-distance, but I panicked and broke it off instead Now she’s been gone for teeks, and I’ wreck without her”

“So tell her how you feel Is there any chance she’d come back?”

“I don’t want her to come back! Not for me, anyway,” I said

He gave e look “Why not?”

“Because I don’t want her toworth it I ether for a h time” I hesitated “Is it?”

Chip took a long s frouy here But for what it’s worth, I knew the day I met Mariah I would marry her”

I groaned “What is wrong with everybody? How can you know that shit so fast?”

He laughed “I don’t know It was just a gut instinct”

“My gut instincts told me to run the other way the day I met Winnie”

“Because she’s so young?”

“Yes She just did so to s for so-two”

“Mariah’s twenty-four,” he said “That’s not much older”

I took a drink and considered it “Yeah, but we’re different I’ve already been married and failed at it I’ve had ue money”

“Winnie isn’t the type to care about money”

“I know she isn’t,” I gru her to come back here when I can’t promise her what she ulti it?”

“What do you think she ultimately wants?”

“Eventually? To get married and have kids But let’s say she’s not ready for that for fiveforty?”

Chip shrugged “Why not? But let’s say she was ready in one or two years Would it change your mind?”