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The Announcement in the Sunday Paper

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Sundays were ours, or so I told myself.

That was the rule I'd built our whole relationship around. Five months of slow mornings, of him appearing at my door with bagels and that crooked grin, of evenings folded together on the couch. Marcus had a way of making the ordinary feel chosen. When he disappeared for the occasional weekend, the explanations were always so flat and reasonable I never thought to doubt them. A cousin's move across the state. A work retreat with no signal. His mother's plumbing. I believed every dull word because the dull words are the ones you never question.

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