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    What if . . . Mrs. Gardiner's Lambton relations had been a little more well-to-do and what if she had stronger and longer ties to them and to Derbyshire? In this variation Elizabeth begins to spend summers with the Gardiners in Derbyshire at a fairly young age. As a result she develops her own ties to that part of the world and its people, including the Darcy's of Pemberley.

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    12 Nov 2023

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    Elizabeth tours Pemberley with the Gardiners a year early, while the Darcys are away at Ramsgate. She is intrigued by the housekeeper's glowing praise of a man who is highly respected by his servants and tenants, and a doting guardian to his much younger sister, not to mention so handsome in his portrait. But when she meets him in person two months later in Hertfordshire, he doesn't quite match Mrs Reynolds' description.

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    29 Oct 2023

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    She helps others like him, those whose emotions are too grand to bear, so they develop the skills to manage life.

    To have a future where their love is boundless.

    She’s had her moment of epiphany, and her soul is at ease because of that.

    So, she doesn’t understand why, lately, their non-verbal, often one-sided communication, is full of silent touches. Surprisingly, they don’t come from her.

    She doesn’t even say “I love you” anymore. Knowing the words are too heavy on his shoulders, and sparing herself the heartbreak of not hearing it back.

    She knows better than to love desperately.

    “Sakura.” He does that often now. She hates it. The softened tone of his voice, usually dark and unforgiving, gives away a fondness she would rather not read into.

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    19 May 2023

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    The one where they’re best friends, and she likes him, and he likes her, but they never tell each other. The one where his mother knew from the day they met she would be part of their family, and his older brother witnesses him slowly finding his sun, moon, and stars all in a little cherry blossom. The one where everyone sees how he looks at her, but she’s too busy chasing her dreams; he can only hope he’s in at least one.

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    16 Apr 2023