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Chapter Eleven:
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Proximity
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Roman had expected the wedding planning to feel like an extension of the announcement — another performance, another set of decisions made by people who weren't him, dressed up in flowers and seating charts instead of press releases. For the first two weeks, it mostly was. Then, somewhere in the third week, standing in a fitting room doorway watching Beatrice argue quietly but firmly with a stylist about a neckline, he realised it had stopped feeling like performance at all, and he wasn't entirely sure when that had happened.
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