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Merritt. A laugh. A mind. A future.

His confession arrived when she was finally unarmored.

He had been there.

A teenage mistake, a spark, a blast, and the girl whose name he’d memorized in the hospital reports.

For years, he’d carried that ghost; for months,

he’d loved the woman she became without telling her why his hands shook at the stove, why silence continue reading …