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• “Lorelai is not our prisoner. She may leave and find the future you wish for her at any time. We will not keep it from her. But if she chooses to stay, understand that we will look for every answer we can to give her whatever she wants, including children,” Derik explained.
• My heart grew heavy with the words, a fullness that swelled and warmed me at the same time. I hadn’t heard him be so devoted before. It had me clenching my thighs together.
• And that should have been where I announced that we had to go, but I let my mother keep picking, and she asked the one question I had been hoping wouldn’t slip out.