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She shook her head Adamantly “I know I can’t”

“Maybe you can”

“I can’t live in that house”

“Maybe he’d move in a heartbeat if it meant he could be a family with you”

She shook her head Again

“I’ he’dthat soht deep inside you And it seeo Maybe it’s time for you to reassess Maybe you’ve learned from your mistakes with Mike, but you’ve let your fear that you can’t trust yourself blind you to the fact that you’ve grown up You’ve changed You know your li the happiness”

“I’m happy with Isabella”

“And what is it going to do to her if she grows up with your entire happiness resting upon her? Can you iine how hard it would be for her to ever leave home? Leave town? Follow her own dreams? If she loves you as uilt, leaving you alone”

“Stop” She couldn’t hear any more

But she also couldn’t deny that there was so

“I don’t want to love him”

“I think you do love hih”

“I’m scared to death to love him”

“And right therethat’s your truth”