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    It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?

    And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.

    Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.

    Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.

    [or: soulmateism made literal]

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    26 Oct 2025

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    Mel picked up her phone, wondering if spam callers even worked this late at night.

    “I’m getting a divorce,” Langdon said on the other end, without any kind of preamble, “Can I crash with you?”

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    26 Oct 2025

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    Mel🎶: I’m dating Dr. Langdon.

    Several people are typing…

    Or, Mel and Frank kissed in the rain. Now what?

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    25 Oct 2025

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    It’s Mel King, who looks absolutely identical to the other times—count them, three—he’s seen her: honey-colored braid, no-nonsense thick-framed glasses, a slightly uncertain expression playing across her face, which Frank already knows hides the strength of her convictions.

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