"Only once," he countered. "Maybe twice."
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Across town, Noah kept his own litany of apologies in the notes app of his phone, unsent and unpolished. He replayed the same sequence of choices in the small hours: the jokes that landed wrong, the nights he stayed late at work, the words he never said when she needed them most. The heart has a stubbornness to it — a refusal to move on that felt both cruel and fiercely alive. He wanted to fix things, to take the string of broken sentences and tie them into one true line. He told himself that wanting was the first step toward doing. "Only once," he countered