“I’ll do it now,” Luis said, and hated how soft his voice had become.

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“I thought you were done needing me,” he replied. “We were both wrong.”

The library named a children’s corner after Luis. Rica’s quiet novel won a national award. At the ceremony, the host asked her, “What’s the secret to your happy marriage?”

“I thought you were done working,” she said.

“I remember everything,” he said. “Including the year you cried on my shoulder because a publisher rejected your first manuscript. You said, ‘No one will ever read my stories.’ Now everyone reads them. But you stopped telling me the stories. The ones about your day. Your fears. The hotel key card in your pocket.”

“You remembered,” she whispered.