The Years We've Lost
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I looked at her and felt nothing. Absolutely nothing. There was no joy from seeing her after a year and four months. I just saw her as another person. Not my girlfriend.
Asa Caswell and Olivia Barzen were supposed to be the perfect couple. Their friends had been shipping them for years, and they had been best friends since kindergarden. They were supposed to be. But then Asa was diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer. That wasn't supposed to happen. But now, he's coming back after 1 year 4 months and 47 days. Would he still love her? Or did he sink into the hole that cancer dug?
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