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Re-reading this for book club next week

It’s all about the details you notice. And the joys you savor. And the hope you refuse to give up on.
It’s all about writing the very best story of your life.
Not just how you live it—but how you choose to tell it.
Emma

“Well, you’re lucky. Because love is something you can learn. Love is something you can practice. It’s something you can choose to get good at. And here’s how you do it.” He let go of his walker to signal he meant business: “Appreciate your person.”

Dad’s speech

All to say: Charlie’s doing just fine.
As am I.
I did eventually give in and marry Charlie, by the way. And I did transfer my mug collection to his mansion. But I am still, to this day, not allowed to touch the coffee maker.

His $1000 coffee maker ☕️🤎

I think the whole ballroom broke into applause—but I can’t say for sure. And I feel like a live camera fed the moment to the jumbotron up front—but I’m not positive about that, either. All I remember for certain was the feeling of my heart unfolding to its full wingspan in my chest, like a bird that had decided to stretch out wide at last and absolutely soar.

They admitted their feelings and kissed

It was bronchitis,not lung cancer. 🫁

He was as close to picture perfect as I’d ever seen him. Until I noticed his green-and-white pocket square….
It was a piece of that green-and-white fabric from the tropical-print dress I’d almost drowned in. As if maybe, instead of throwing it away, Charlie—without even bothering to find scissors—had ripped a piece of it free with his bare hands, folded it, and declared it to be a handkerchief.

Her dress

Charlie stopped talking, and put his head in his hand, but the camera kept filming.
When he looked up again, he peered straight into the lens.
“I’m so sorry, Emma,” he said then. “I would write a hundred happy endings for us if I could.”

The end of his video 😢

“Emma,” Charlie said into the phone. “If you’re seeing this right now—if Logan sent it to you to watch—then I’m…” Charlie shook his head, like he couldn’t believe the words. “It sounds like the worst kind of bad movie dialogue … but if you’re watching this, then I’m already dead.”

Emma started watching Charlie’s video that Logan sent her

“That’s totally inappropriate behavior. Would you secretly upgrade a work colleague’s father to a VIP room?”
“If I were in love with her, I would.”
I blinked. “He’s not in love with me,” I said. “He told me he wasn’t.”
But as we pulled up to the Biltmore valet, Logan just said, “I can’t believe you fell for that, either.”

Logan & Emma
Charlie worked behind the scenes