As they ate, Terra couldn’t help but reflect on the similarities between their experience cooking pad Thai and how she and Michael had come together. Just as the noodles had taken an hour to soak, she felt like she’d spent the last few years stagnating and going nowhere. But then, when their lives had been aligned in just the right way, everything had come together in a frantic burst of energy, producing something that couldn’t have ever happened in any other way.

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