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“She is like a sanity vampire. She sucks it right out of a person.”

The hospital starts quieting down as much as a hospital can. Despite my objections, Leo forces me to join him on the bed.

“You just had surgery. You need to rest.”

“I’m not asking you up here to have sex with me. I want to hold you. I want to fall asleep with you. I missed that last night. Knowing you were asleep in my bed wasn’t the same.”

When I curl into his body, when his arm is around me, when my eyelids start to get heavy, he says, “I love you. Don’t forget to buy bread.”

I can’t wait for the rest of our lives to start.

My last thought before I fall asleep is ...holy shit, I forgot to call my parents and let them know I wasn’t coming over on the ferry tonight. They were going to be very displeased with me.

Oh, well.

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