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Twenty Minutes in the Driveway

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It started with the headlights.

Every evening around six, I'd hear Maya's car turn into the driveway. The engine would cut off. And then nothing. No door. No footsteps on the porch. Just the soft tick of cooling metal and the blue wash of the dashboard glowing through the kitchen window while I stirred a pot of something neither of us would taste.

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