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When I did see him, he sat at the piano wearing dark glasses, one hand on the keys, the other resting on a golden dog lying quietly at his feet. Buddy, his guide dog, looked wiser than most people I knew.
I was thirty by then. I had stopped expecting anything from men except polite discomfort. Most didn’t see me—they saw the scars first, and everything else second.
And somehow, that meant he saw more.
On our first date, I tried to warn him.
He just smiled and reached for my hand. “Good,” he said. “I’ve never loved ordinary things.”
That should have told me something.
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