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If Only

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Reads 316,576
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Parts 79
Time 9h 16m

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The man I married broke me. 

Not because he didn't love me-
but because he couldn't stay when grief moved in.

Three pregnancies.
Three losses.
One marriage that shattered under the weight of everything we couldn't fix.

And somewhere in the silence, in the distance I didn't know how to cross,
he made a choice that broke what little I had left.

If only I had known how fragile love could be.

This is a story about loss that doesn't heal cleanly.
About love tested in the quiet.
About betrayal that doesn't come from hate-but from weakness.

Sometimes heartbreak doesn't arrive all at once.
Sometimes it happens slowly,
while you're still trying to hold everything together.All Rights Reserved

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