If I hadn\u2019t posted our wedding photos, none of this might have happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see you, Ella,\u201d he\u2019d told me once, holding my face in both hands. \u201cAnd because of that, I know we\u2019d be powerful together.\u201d<\/p>\n
My best friend Kayla had warned me he felt a little too careful, like he rehearsed emotions instead of letting them happen. I brushed it off. I thought he was shaped by grief.<\/p>\n
Ben never really spoke about Rachel, his first wife. Just fragments.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loved red wine.\u201d
\n\u201cShe hated the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben was seven years older than me. He loved quiet mornings, black coffee, old soul records on Sundays. He called me his \u201csecond chance,\u201d and I thought it was romantic.<\/p>\n
The morning I posted our wedding photos was ordinary. Sunlight warmed the kitchen tiles while I folded towels. I\u2019d never posted Ben before\u2014not once\u2014but that day I wanted to share it. I tagged him and wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cHappiest day of my life. Here\u2019s to forever, my love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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