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So we settle in side by side on our blanket, wrapped in warmth and love, and begin our anniversary dinner beneath the stars.

REMI

I grew up knowing that everything can be taken from you in the blink of an eye.

For a long time, I believed that awareness was my greatest weakness, a shadow cast over every moment of joy.

And perhaps, at times, it was.

But now, I see it differently.

That fragile truth has become my quiet strength.

Living with the constant awareness of how delicate and fleeting life truly is has left a permanent ache in me,

a sense of impermanence that never fully disappears.

It can be unsettling. Disorienting, even.

But it’s also what gave me the courage to choose boldly, to leap, even when I wasn’t sure where I’d land, because the one risk I could never bear was letting the chance to be truly, utterly happy pass me by.

And now, Sebastian and I are happy.

Deeply, breathtakingly happy.

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