I thought I was finally free. After fifty years of shared calendars, shared beds, shared disappointments, I chose myself and walked away. At seventy‑five, I believed divorce was my rebellion against time, a last, wild insistence that my life was still mine to rewrite. Then the phone rang, and in a single trembling sentence, everything I thought I knew about love, freedom, and time was rip… Continues…
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