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Intro. They sat in the same room, but a wall of silence separated them. She was a reckless nineteen-year-old girl, forced into a marriage she didn't want, and he was a forty-three-year-old man with a stern expression. He had accepted the marriage out of loyalty to an old friendship, not love. He saw her as a little girl, she as a heavy shackle. There was an age gap between them and a heartache that no paper contract could bridge.

Celine Morgan

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