Chapter One: The Beginning

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It was a sweltering day when I first met her. The kind of day where the air feels thick and heavy, and the sun is relentless in its pursuit to make everything unbearably warm. I was walking home from the market, a bag of groceries in one hand and a bottle of cold lemonade in the other when I saw her. She was sitting on a bench under the shade of a large oak tree, her skin glistening with a delicate sheen of sweat, and her eyes hidden behind a pair of oversized sunglasses.

"Hey," I greeted, offering her the lemonade. "You look like you could use this."

She accepted it with a grateful smile, her lips curving in a way that made my heart skip a beat. That was the moment I knew my life was about to change.

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