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“Come on, let’s lie down.”

We faced each other in the bed, just my bedside light on. “I’m going to be better, J. I need to help you with all the stuff that adds up, and I need to be more of a dad.”

I shrugged. “I think it’s good that you’re playful with them. They love that.”

“But I need to leave room for you to be the same way.”

I thought for a moment. “I need to get back to a playful place. Sucks when I feel like my brain’s working against me.”

Dylan nodded. “We’ll get you back.”

“I don’t know if it’s a matter of coming back, because every time something like this happens, I grow and change through the process of living it. I’ll never be who I was when you met me.”

“No,” he said. “But I love who you’ve become even more. We’ve gotten to grow together, and I think that’s something to celebrate.”

I laughed as heat pinched my eyes. “God, I am sick of crying.”

“These are good tears, though, yeah?”

“Yeah.”

We fell asleep like that, snuggled up together, not as the same people we were when we met, but as two people who had weathered life as a team.

FORTY-THREE

DYLAN

NOW | DECEMBER

Tell your wife thanks for making my wife look so hot

Mikey

Wait, what? How?

Did they do one of those boodwah photo shoots or something

It’s boudoir

Ducking talk to text!

FUCK. FUCKING.

WHAT DID I MISS WHY ARE JESSIE AND JEANINE HOT

Nothing, dickhead. Jessie picked out dress options for J

(pic)

Oh right. She told me that

HI JEANINE YOU LOOK PRETTY

Watch it

Relax, my wife’s tits are bigger than yours

Did you just talk about my wife’s tits?

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