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"But as much as he would have liked to, as much as he craved it, he was still cautious about claming Harold as a friend: sometimes he worried that he was only imagining their closeness, inflating it hopefully in his mind, and then (to his embarrassment) he would have to retrieve The Beautiful Promise from his shelf and turn to the acknowledgements, reading Harold's words again, as if it were itself a contract, a declaration that what he felt for Harold was at least in some degree reciprocated." 💔