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Julian took me back to our old neighborhood and showed me a garden of wisteria he had planted just for me. He dropped to one knee and asked me to marry him with a ring that featured two sapphire butterflies.
I said yes through tears of joy as the dawn finally broke over a life that was once filled with nothing but shadows.
THE END.
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