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“Tell me there will be a happy ending,” she pleaded.
“I can’t,” he confessed. “Endings are always sad. Even stories with a happy ending have a bittersweet quality, because the story may have ended at a happy moment but, you know, everything ends. All things must pass.”
“That’s sad and cynical,” she protested.
“No, just real,” he soothed. “That’s why it’s so important to savor the moment. When you’re happiest, you should fold the moment into some unbreakable safe in your heart, to comfort you after the inevitable.”
She sighed, hearing the truth of it all.
“Tell me, at least, that this is one of those moments,” she pleaded.
“Oh, darling,” he said, wrapping his arms around her, “of course it is, because this is nowhere near the end.”
