I think I've found all I can wish for, and then some

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“I will love you, I will love you 
Until the blood all leaves these veins 
Don’t you let us, don’t you let us 
Lose to an early grave 
Give me a lifetime 
And then fifty more to find the words 
That will never explain 
How I need you, how I see you 
How you are everything that I have”

The song is “I Will Love You” by Gin Wigmore.

-Her-  

Osman escorted her home, but didn’t come inside to tattle to her parents. He told her she should tell them herself before they heard it from the grapevine. He was being harsh but fair. She knew that, but she didn’t like it.  

She walked to the kitchen as if it was her own execution. It might as well be.  

She parked herself in a chair across from her mother who was chopping vegetables for dinner. One look and  Mevkibe  knew something had happened.   

“ Sanem, çocuk? What happened?”  

“I want to tell you and Baba before you hear it from our neighbors.” she was serious and resolute about this.  

“ Tamam, baby. Your father will be home soon.”  Mevkibe looked concerned, but continued cutting tomatoes and cucumbers, occasionally glancing up at her daughter who sat across from her like a statue.  

As soon as Nihat walked in to sit for dinner he sensed the tension in the room and sat down at the head of the table between his wife and daughter.  

She started at the beginning, telling them that Can had been texting her since he visited her in the hospital. That she knew he had romantic intentions right away, but took her time to decide her future. She told them that she loved him and couldn’t be apart from him any longer, and he felt the same. That their impatience led to them being caught together in the  mahalle . She blushed when she told her parents that he had kissed her, and that’s why Osman came to her defense.   

She could see her father turning red, his eyes becoming bluer with emotion. Her mother just hung her head and listened stoically.  

“Thank you for coming to us with the truth right away,  kizim .” her father surprised her with his reaction. He was solemn but soft.  

“I’m sorry for shaming us Baba.” she didn’t know why she started crying, but she couldn’t stop it.  

“One impertinent decision can ruin a reputation forever. But...” Nihat paused, “it doesn’t make you a bad person. The neighborhood will talk, it's what they do. You aren’t the first person to be caught out with their beloved, and you won’t be the last. Their opinions are their own. Your family are the ones who know you, know your intentions and virtues. You could never shame us.”  

She was truly shocked. Her father was a wise man and she loved him, but he was very set in his ways. For him to tell her this, to be this open with her, was very meaningful.  

“Baba...I...I love you.” she got up from her seat to hug him tightly around the neck while he patted her arms affectionately.  

Her mother was weeping next to him, but smiling at them just the same.  

“Sit down again, kizim . Your mother and I have some things to say about this.” by this she knew he meant her relationship.  

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