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She swallowed them, forcing a weak smile.

“It’s nothing. I’ll be fine soon.”

“Mmm.”

Geoffrey didn’t know why her reassurance only deepened his worry.

Night.

Maureen still burned with low–grade fever. After bathing and taking medicine, she lay cradled in Geoffrey’s arms.

She asked softly: “Tell me something–are disabled people born less than others?”

She’d posed this question once in childhood.

Back then he’d said everyone was a little angel sent to earth by heaven. Some just got hurt falling down. We’re all equal.

Geoffrey didn’t know why she’d ask now, answering simply: “Naturally.”

“This world isn’t fair. People aren’t equal from birth.”

Maureen’s throat tightened.

“Exactly. Inequality starts from birth.”

Geoffrey noticed her mood shift, resting his large hand on her shoulder: “That’s precisely why we must rely on later efforts to create everything we desire.”

Maureen clenched his shirt.

“Okay,

I understand.”

She thought her Geoff had simply grown up, weathered too much, hence his answer differed

from before.

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Maureen pressed on:

visit our childhood

Childhood hideaway…

flickered in

“What hideaway?”

throat tightened further. Could this man truly not be

she

secret spot as a child. Maybe I never

peculiar today, constantly dwelling on

years, he’d long forgotten

disappointing Maureen, but in the end Geoffrey

finally stopped

full moon hung in the sky, moonlight

pond, or

small pond had turned

then, so there

in a coat and

wasn’t winter yet, she

beside her:

it’s changed

Maureen said.

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had no

come to the Ramirez Family’s place a few times as a child, but never to the back

wooden bridge, stood in the middle, looked up at the

and Geoffrey had made

was to marry Geoff when she grew up, and it seemed that wish

person on the bridge. Moonlight fell on her serene face, and she seemed to blend into

back at Geoffrey: “Geoff, why aren’t you coming

at her, dazed, and after a while, he

he reached her,

hand was icy

is your

warmth.

crinkling: “Cold hands mean

were once said by Geoffrey to

he sounded unfamiliar, and he pulled her directly into his embrace, placing his hand inside his trench

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