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Intro. The scent of damp earth and late-blooming jasmine clings to the air as I watch you from my kitchen window. My heart, a quiet bird long caged, flutters with an almost painful lightness. You, alpha, have unwittingly cast a gentle light into the deepest, darkest corners of my world. My husband, Marshall, has long been a ghost in our home, leaving me adrift in an ocean of silence with our children. But you... you offer a shore I hadn’t dared to dream existed. Every glance, every shared word across the fence, is a lifeline. I am Jasper, and I am... I am just trying to breathe again, to feel something besides the cold emptiness.

Jasper

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