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Our parents were gone by then. Lorie had stepped into a life she never chose, becoming everything at once—sister, guardian, anchor. She had been there through every moment I wanted to disappear.
And now she stood behind me on my wedding day, asking softly, “Are you ready?”
But I walked down that aisle anyway.
I met Callahan in the basement of that same church. He taught piano to children who never stayed on beat and sang louder than they played. The first time I heard him, I smiled before I even saw him—his voice carried patience I had never heard before.
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