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It started, like most things between them, with hope.

That is SO sweet! Love this beginning!

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Soon it would be echoing with laughter and the clink of dinner plates and the occasional burst of a country song crackling from the kitchen radio.

This language is so economical and evocative at the same time. I feel like I can see it and feel it because I can hear it!

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Outside, the sun turned the fields to gold. Inside, Martha Clark became Martha Kent.

Awwwwww! Also, love the sentence construction and antithesis here.

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He took her hand and kissed her knuckles, one by one. “Then let’s fill it with life.”

I love it being obvious here that Jonathan is where Clark gets his ideas about being such a romantic.

Looking forward to more!


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