It’s a woman’s work to take these scraps and turn them into Eden.

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O, it’s our wedding night.

Your breath rumbles softly and I hear the sea.

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Did his decision haunt him, now it was coming to pass for someone he knew? Someone he loved, even? Or did he feel noble, like he’d sacrificed something good for something greater?

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The pear tree had to come with them. Before they polished the silverware and laid each spoon and knife and fork neatly in its velvet bed in the wooden case.