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let the quiet engulf us as my mind spun with all the possible responses I could make, but I knew which choice I would be making. I’d always known. It didn’t matter how long he stayed away. It wouldn’t matter if he left again — although that would break my heart — just like the last time. For me, nothing had changed. This time I’d make sure he stayed.
    I reached out and grabbed his hand. “Come inside and look around. We need to decide which one we’re going to live in.”
    â€œYou know, we could build a new one just for us. With a rock garden.”
    â€œA rock garden? I thought that was just a pile of rocks.” My heart began a steady thudding in my chest. Was Mike saying what I thought he was saying?
    â€œThat’s all it would be without you.”
    â€œThis isn’t going to be easy, Mike. There’s a lot to forgive.”
    â€œIt can’t be more difficult than staying away for so long. I was a fool, Eli.”
    â€œI know you were, and don’t think I won’t remind you of that.” I smiled and waited for his response.
    â€œGod you haven’t changed at all. I can just imagine what you’ll be like at eighty. You won’t let me get away with anything, will you?”
    â€œYou’ve got that right Mr soon-to-be-unemployed-CEO. I don’t suppose you’ve learned to cook at all because I work long hours and I love my job.”
    â€œI’ll take a class. Right after I buy this dinky little company I have my eye on.”
    Eight years later
    â€œWhen are you going to do something about that pile of rocks in the back yard, Eli? It’s been there since you moved in.” Quinn peered out the kitchen window to the back garden.
    â€œIt’s not a pile of rocks. Those are the rocks for our rock garden.” A warm, sappy feeling bubbled inside me as I looked at the pile under the tree in the yard.
    â€œBut you never build it.”
    â€œThat’s not true,” said Mike as he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me. “We’ve moved one rock every spring.” He pointed to the back corner of the yard where seven rocks sat, carefully positioned exactly where we wanted them. “These things take time and I don’t want to get it wrong.” He kissed the side of my face and whispered. “Never again.”

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