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    She had it the whole time. A CD with her name written across it in his handwriting. She just never pressed play. Years later, she finally does and realizes it was never just a mixtape. It was a timeline. A confession. Everything he couldn’t say while she was still close enough to hear it. The beginning. The almost. The moment it became something real and what it turned into after she left.

    Somewhere between the first track and the last, Annie understands one thing too late—he never stopped choosing her.

    She just never answered.

    But now… she might.

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