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“Then why won’t you marry me?”

“You’re gonna think it’s silly. But it’s how I feel.”

‘Talk to me.”

“I feel that everyone I love dies. My mom is basically dead because she can’t’ recognize me. Our father died years ago, and now Cory. You and I both work in a dangerous field, and when I think about it, it scares me.”

“Babes, you just lost your brother, you are going to feel this way. I will wait until you are ready for that commitment.”

“It’s not that I’m not committed…”

“I know,” he whispered, hugging me again and kissing my hair,

“I do love you.”

“And I love you.”

The End

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