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He’d floored me with his imaginative description of a scuffle between a thirty-something couple. One very tall woman and one extremely vertically challenged man presumably came dangerously close to divorcing when she’d offered to let him sit on her lap in a movie theatre so he could see over a hatted individual sitting in front of him. And when Tom turned his attention from the couple, he settled the matter for me once and for all.

He said, “Ab Fab, it was nothing less than fate that brought you to apply for a job at my company that you were totally unqualified for in hopes of meeting a bite-sized chocolate candy, or whatever the heck you call it, to write an article about the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of. I can’t think of a way the gods could have given me a better gift.”

And that’s when he said for the first time, “I love you. Please don’t ever change.”

It wasn’t poetry. It wasn’t the way I envisioned it (and believe me, I’ve dedicated many a day to envisioning it). But it was true.

And therefore, it was, rather than a dream come true, a truth that became a dream—one that I replay again and again.

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