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situation.”

“I never meant to hurt you.”

“You didn’t,” he said. “You saved me from marrying someone who could humiliate her own sister in a hallway and still think the real tragedy was losing flowers.”

For a moment, neither of us spoke.

Then he said, “Take care of yourself, Claire.”

“You too, Daniel.”

After we hung up, I sat outside for a long time.

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