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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

— Leonardo da Vinci

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By the time the adults in our lives started joking that Ethan Hayes and I would someday marry, he had already begun building a life where I was the person left behind. The morning he announced his Harvard acceptance, he did it beside Lena Pierce, not beside me. Their video showed two crimson folders, their shoulders touching, their smiles bright enough to make strangers assume they were a couple.

Chapter 2 I searched the image online and found the same childish “bad luck doll” sold on superstition sites. I did not believe paper could…

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The night my BF told me he’d end our relationship if I dyed my dark brown hair a slightly warmer shade of red, I laughed because I was certain he had to be joking. Then I asked him twice more, and each time, without hesitation, Jason said the same thing: “Yes, Emily. I’d break up with you.” It took me another week to understand that the argument was never really about my hair.

Chapter 1 We had been together for eight months, long enough that I’d stopped thinking of Jason as someone I was still getting to know….

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At the gates of Disneyland, Ethan Cole handed Chloe Parker a ticket, scanned his own, and started toward the entrance before he remembered I was standing three feet behind them. “You got yours, right, Scarlett?” he called over his shoulder, as if I had been the one who forgot something. By the time I bought a single-day ticket on my phone, the two people I loved most had already disappeared into the crowd.

Chapter 2 I went to the Getty Center because I needed proof that I could spend one day without chasing Ethan and Chloe. At noon,…

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By the time I found Ethan Hayes in the airport lounge, he had already given away my seat, my vacation, and—though I did not understand it yet—the last excuse I had for staying with him. He sat beside Lila Moore under the soft brass lights, turning the pages of the Egypt guide I had spent three weeks marking with little blue tabs. When I stopped in front of them, Ethan looked up as casually as if I had interrupted a business lunch instead of the trip we had planned for our tenth anniversary.

Chapter 2 Ethan had not always been the man who could throw away fifteen years with a shrug. At twenty-one, he had been brilliant, hungry,…

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After planning 263 weddings, I thought I knew every disaster that could happen before a bride reached the altar. I had handled drunk fathers, missing rings, runaway groomsmen, torn dresses, thunderstorms, power failures, and one grandmother who accidentally set a centerpiece on fire. I had never prepared for the moment I stepped through a service entrance and saw my own fiancé waiting at the altar for my best friend.

Chapter 2 Eric came home that evening carrying Thai takeout and a bottle of cabernet, as though he had merely stayed late at work. He…

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My parents chose my brother after he destroyed my marriage, and the moment my mother put her arm around my wife instead of me, I understood that a man can become an orphan while both his parents are still alive. I was thirty-five, standing in my parents’ dining room with a bottle of bourbon under my arm, when my wife, Laura, told me she was leaving. Before I could ask where she was going, my younger brother Ryan leaned back in his chair and said, “She’s leaving you for me.”

Chapter 2 That confession changed everything. Laura and Ryan had committed the obvious betrayal, but my parents and aunt had protected it, just as they…

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