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"I wanted to tell her—out loud, with words, the kind I never knew how to say—that she wasn't disposable, that she wasn't a backup, that she was the first choice, the only choice, the one I'd been choosing for years without knowing how to say it." — Ed

Cider Kiss

Sheila McLaren

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