you still talk too smoothly.”
They spent the afternoon talking.
Then they met again.
And again.
Soon, their conversations became phone calls.
The phone calls became dinners.
And the dinners became long evenings remembering the life they had once imagined together.It felt strange.
It also felt completely natural.
For the first time in decades, Margaret felt like she had been given something she thought was gone forever.
A second chance.
The Proposal
Three months later, Thomas asked Margaret to marry him.
She was stunned.
She asked him if he
