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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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pressed on: “Geoff, I can’t

we visit our

Childhood hideaway…

in Geoffrey’s

“What hideaway?”

this man truly not be the one she’d loved since

long hesitation, she offered

Ramirez estate. My secret spot as

her peculiar today, constantly dwelling

the years, he’d long forgotten

Maureen, but in the end

the rain finally stopped for

moon hung in the sky, moonlight spilling

the small pond, or to be precise, what had now

had turned into an

back by then, so there

herself in a coat and

it wasn’t winter yet, she was wearing

walked beside her: “Is

changed a

Maureen said.

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Geoffrey had no memory of

a few times as a child, but never to the back

walked onto the wooden bridge, stood in the middle, looked up at the full moon, as if she had returned

Geoffrey had

marry Geoff when she grew up,

Moonlight fell on her serene face, and she seemed to blend into the surroundings, becoming

Geoffrey: “Geoff, why aren’t you

after a while, he snapped out

he reached her,

hand was icy

is your hand so

warmth.

“Cold hands mean

once said by Geoffrey

unfamiliar, and he pulled her directly into

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