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THE FIRST TIME Leo brought me flowers on a Friday, I laughed because it felt so unlike him.
After sixteen years of marriage, romance had become quieter between us. Love still existed, but it hid inside grocery lists, exhausted smiles across the kitchen, and half-finished conversations interrupted by laundry buzzers and homework questions. We weren’t unhappy. We were simply tired in the way long marriages sometimes become tired.
So when he walked through the front door carrying a bouquet of pink tulips and grinned like a man half his age, I honestly thought something terrible had happened.
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