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Getting married soon - by Sasha Chapin

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Some notes on world-building

I used to think that falling in love had to look a certain way. Connection was synonymous with breathless, giddy excitement and immediate mutual understanding. It had to be like a sudden explosion. Both the home you’ve always been looking for and the happiness you’d never believed possible, delivered simultaneously. I was intimidated by Cate during our first Zoom call. A lot of people are: her pale blue stare, her obvious intelligence, the crisp precision of her communication. She isn’t always given to niceties, because she doesn’t really need them herself, as an independent-minded creature…

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