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you every single day. I promise. Maybe more than once a day.”

Quinn laughed. “Okay. We can talk about boring things

even if we don’t have anything else to say. I’ll put it on video

and you can watch me do dishes or clean the house.”

“You can see my cat, Whiskers, when I get home. He loves

video chatting.”

“Yes. I’m excited to see him.”

“I’ll show you my plants. I’m kind of a crazy plant lady.”

“I like plants.”

“I’ll walk around my condo and show you everything so

you know what it looks like. I could even go to some of my

favorite spots and video you so that you can see them.”

“That would be really cool.”

Dallas didn’t know what else to say. She wanted to make

plans. To make promises. More promises. She wanted to look

down that road and tell Quinn that she had zero doubts that

they’d make it, no matter how hard it was, but that was hard to

do. She didn’t want to scare Quinn away and she didn’t want

to sound like one of those clingy, really crazy, overly attached

people who raced into everything.

Or maybe it was just hard to find the exact right thing to

say when there wasn’t anything that she could say that would

make leaving any easier, even with all the technology, even

with all their hopes, even with all the promises. Leaving this

way was the best way to leave that Dallas could have

imagined, but it was still so hard.

“I- yeah. You should call me tonight. When your plane

lands.”

“I’ll call you from the airport too, before I get on it.”

“Okay.”