Chapter 13

een, my life changed forever.

as i reets of beaufort forty years later, t year of my life, i remember everyt ill unfolding before my very eyes.

i remember jamie saying yes to my breation and o cry togetalking to bot and my parents, explaining to t i needed to do. t i only for jamie, and all tried to talk me out of it, especially understand, and i o make clear to t i needed to do it for me.

i i didnt care if s care t ogettered to me. all i cared about my old me to do. in my mind it time god ly to me, and i kneainty t i going to disobey.

i kno some of you may out of pity. some of t because s committing muco botions is no. i er at t i asked ill kno today.

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e ist canding beside me as t man. t s a tradition to for me its a tradition t o my life. jamie my fatogeto er on, and as tionseadily stronger until h.

jamie also taugransforming po it offers. i realized t eric and margaret o her house.

jamie aught.

jamie only tom ton, she angel who saved us all.

just as sed, ting ed outside t notice, t time to make many arrangements, and people came out of to make to support us. i sa, eddie, sally, carey, angela, and even lerance music began. alt moved from ;its very important to me, landon,“ s;its part of my dream, remember?“ t

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i kne e dress t ice, t ion.

“im proud of you, son.”

i nodded. “im proud of you, too, dad.”

it time id ever said to him.

my mom roed in rengt, jamie stood sed slo silently in ire, and topped t no more ten or t it seemed mucly. it, jamie and started moving again, and i felt my surge h pride.

it difficult walk anyone ever o make.

in every o remember.

t as jamie and oo clap. to position, and jamie sat do. ito my knees so t i he same.

, after kissing jamie on trieved o begin to o sometant, oell t anticipated our being so muc ood before us, almost confused, to kneel as her.

began traditional jamie ed out to me. kno a once more surprised me.

jamie and me, t to tion, to us again, as if searc words.

, and everyone could . t ;as a fato give a sure t im able to do this.”

tion silent, and nodded at me, o be patient. jamie squeezed my .

“i can no more give jamie a. but o let anot sh.”

it aside t, offering o mine, and i took it, completing the circle.

it , and jamie gave me one as cly as my moto cry, t of god and everyone else, id promised my love and devotion, in sickness and in so good about anything.

it of my life.

it is noy years later, and i can still remember everyt day.

i may be older and ually comes, t day float till love to do so.

i breataking in t self . its still teenty-seven once more. but tly, looking toill told you: i no miracles can happen.