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“She was there — expecting me, naturally.” He chuckled once. “She hopped down from the high stool at the counter as soon as I walked in and came directly toward me.

“It shocked me. I was not sure if she meant to attack. That’s the only interpretation of her behavior my past had to offer. But she was smiling. And the emotions that were emanating from her were like nothing I’d ever felt before.

“‘You’ve kept me waiting a long time,’ she said.”

I didn’t realize Alice had come to stand behind me again.

“And you ducked your head, like a good Southern gentleman, and said, ‘I’m sorry, ma’am.’” Alice laughed at the memory.

Jasper smiled down at her. “You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.”

___Wenn alle anderen zu Grunde gingen und er übrig bliebe, würde ich fortfahren zu sein; und wenn alle anderen blieben und er würde vernichtet, so würde sich das Weltall in etwas vollkommen Fremdes verwandeln, und ich würde nicht mehr dazugehören.___<3<3

_______Ich kann nicht leben ohne mein Leben.
Ich kann nicht leben ohne meine Seele.______