Chapter 10: The Healing

Lily’s recovery took almost a year.
Multiple surgeries. Physical therapy. Counseling.
There were days she cried and days she wanted to give up.
I stayed by her side through all of it.
We talked more in that year than we had in the previous five.
She told me about her dreams. About the stories she still wanted to write. About the fear she still carried.
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I told her about my own fears. About the things I had seen in war and the things I had never told her.
We healed together.