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Chapter 16 – The Promise

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The phone feels burning hot, like it’s slowly melting the fingerprints off of the left hand wrapped around it. The screen blurs and then becomes focused, like a zoom on a professional photographer’s camera. The small print seems to have lost all its meaning. The letters are not written in a strange language, nor are they too small for reading, and there are no typos in the short text message. If anything, the words are too big to comprehend. One short sentence, filled with hope, promise and a brighter, happier future. A future where anything and everything is possible. The strength this message brings is beyond measurable. The phone shakes slightly and two teardrops fall onto the cracked and smudgy screen.

I’ll marry you, Dee.

—-THE END—-

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