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Love at First
by Kate Clayborn

“...when he’d been younger, full of fear and madness and anger, having adversaries had helped him focus, helped him survive. Nothing was complicated when you had an enemy. It was you versus them, and you versus them stopped you thinking about the other problem, which was usually something more like you versus you. 

You versus your fear. You versus your sadness. You versus your anger.” (p. 56)

“So now, when she looked over at Will, what she wanted most was to crawl closer to him, to put her head on his shoulder or against his thigh, to have him stroke her back or put his hands in her hair. “I know, baby,” she remembered him saying, that day when she was sick and it wasn’t that she wanted to be called that, but also…

Also, she definitely did.” (p. 198)

“He felt like he’d had his whole brain rearranged

You don’t have to love people the way you learned to love at first.” (p. 278)

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