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This is my first fic, so I would really appreciate some feedback
Special thanks to Lynn for helping me out with this fic
Family news
The newspaper fell on the doormat with an almost silent plop. But the woman sitting in the living room heard it nonetheless and hurried to the hallway. Picking up the paper, she quickly flicked through the pages until she was looking at the page she wanted: the family news.
Every morning, for the last four years, when the newspaper arrived she did this. And every morning she almost couldn't breathe until she had read all the death announcements and was absolutely sure none of them included the name Harry Pearce. All these years she had been afraid he would die without ever finding her, and without her ever being able to tell him that she loved him and that she would always love him.
Now she was staring at the message and she felt everything fading away. Every glimmer of hope she ever had died in that second. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. She was just standing there like a ghost wishing she was dreaming. But she wasn't. Even when she read the message for the twentieth time it still said the same thing
Congratulations to the newly married couple Harry and Amanda Pearce
We wish you all the luck in the world!
Love from your colleagues.
Every morning in those four years she had feared finding a message confirming he had died. Never had she expected to find this message. Now for the first time she actually wished she had found an announcement of his death, because that would have been less painful. She hated herself for thinking this because she wanted him to be happy, she really did. She just didn't want him to be happy with another woman.
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