I don’t think the sun rose that day. Rain came down without ceasing outside my office window. Dark and miserable was the winter weather and then it slowly became my mood as well. Something along those lines was said in a text and so he offered to come by for a visit over coffee break. Yes…that would give me a reason to smile, I said. But when he walked through the door, he also brought with him the prettiest bouquet of flowers and two drinks from Starbucks – a green tea lemonade for him, and a passion tea lemonade for me. The flowers looked and smelled like spring and the drinks were the exact same two we had ordered exactly five months ago to the day, the day we had our first date. Crazy what can happen in a few, mere months.
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