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To the rest of the world, they were Estee and Yonah, cutest couple on the block

Marissa’s eyes traveled to his maimed hand. She bit her lip. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that,” she blurted out

She looked at her friend, in her kallah meidel era, and smirked to herself. She’d been there a mere few months ago

“You are going back to Lakewood. Did you forget something? Maybe a husband?”

This Chaim — Chaim who had concrete plans, who was actively charting a path for the future — was someone different

“When I went to people for Shabbos, they showed me something completely different from my mom’s version”