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Chapter 39: Can We Start Again?
The garden air is calm now. Soft, warm with the weight of afternoon. The sun sits high, but beneath the shade of the old oak tree, the light breaks into quiet fragments, scattered across the grass and stone.
White roses line the edges of the garden—carefully planted, precisely spaced. Their petals catch the sunlight, clean and bright, holding it without excess. The morning dew is gone, leaving behind only the faint scent of earth and something soft blooming in the heat.
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