Total pages in book: 56
Estimated words: 54572 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 273(@200wpm)___ 218(@250wpm)___ 182(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 54572 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 273(@200wpm)___ 218(@250wpm)___ 182(@300wpm)
My work shifted, evolved. I found a way to keep fighting without standing in the line of fire every day. I found balance, not the kind you schedule, but the kind that settles into your bones when you stop running.
And Dante, he learned how to rest.
Not because the world stopped being dangerous, but because he stopped believing he had to face it alone. He let me see the parts of him that still carried old ghosts. Let me hold the weight instead of pretending it didn’t exist.
The night he proposed, I didn’t think about the future in terms of sacrifice or compromise.
I thought about mornings.
About coffee and shared silence. About arguments that ended in understanding instead of distance. About a man who crossed state lines to save me, and stayed because I asked him to.
I said yes because I didn’t feel trapped. I said yes because I felt free.
Love didn’t weaken me. It steadied me.
And for the first time in my life, I wasn’t choosing between who I was and who I loved.
I was choosing both.
Together.
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The end