My Snobby Aunt Laughed When I Wore A Hand-Me-Down Dress To The Gala — Then The City’s Wealthiest Bachelor Asked Me To Dance
Part 2
The afternoon sun slanted through the small windows of Cousin Martha’s cottage.
It cast golden patches across the worn wooden floors.
I knelt beside the herb garden, my hands buried in the cool, damp earth.
My gray dress already bore permanent traces of dark soil.
I carefully transplanted the rosemary that Martha had mentioned needed attention.
I found a measure of temporary peace in this simple, grounding task.
It was the only thing keeping my mind from replaying that horrible moment at the gala.
The cottage sat nestled at the edge of a quiet country village.
Its thatched roof and climbing roses spoke of a gentler, kinder world.
Throwing myself into usefulness with desperate, frantic energy over the past three days became my only defense.
Floors that were already perfectly clean received another vigorous scrubbing.
Linens bearing absolutely no tears or fraying edges were meticulously mended.
Martha’s modest library was organized by subject, and then reorganized completely by author.
Occupying every single waking hour with physical labor was absolutely essential.
Memories of his warm hand resting at my waist had to be kept strictly at bay.
The worst part was not the humiliation of being made sport of by high society.
It was the crushing, suffocating weight of my own foolishness.
I actually believed someone like Greg Robinson could want me for anything more than an amusing diversion.
I paused in my gardening to press dirty fingers against my aching eyes.
I willed away the tears that threatened whenever I remembered how ardently he had looked at me.
His deep voice had softened beautifully when speaking of his unpublished writings.
All of it was nothing more than expert, calculated play-acting.
He had wagered he could make the plainest woman in the city believe herself truly desirable.
The loud crunch of gravel in the driveway shattered the quiet afternoon.
I froze completely, my hands still buried deep in the soil.
A sleek black SUV had pulled to a sudden stop outside the weathered picket fence.
The expensive vehicle looked entirely out of place in this sleepy rural village.
The driver’s door swung open with forceful, aggressive urgency.
Greg stepped out onto the dusty dirt path.
His usually immaculate appearance bore witness to a desperate, frantic journey.
His suit jacket was missing entirely.
His silk tie hung loose around his unbuttoned collar.
His dark hair fell across his forehead in complete disarray.
He spotted me kneeling silently in the garden.
The expression that crossed his face stole the breath right from my lungs.
He looked frantic, devastated, and completely exhausted.
He took a hesitant step toward the wooden gate.
He gripped the weathered pickets until his knuckles turned stark white.
He spoke my name, his voice rough and thick with raw emotion.
I remained frozen in the dirt, my heart pounding a frantic rhythm against my ribs.
Would I be foolish enough to let him break my heart a second time, or did he actually come here to tell me the truth?
Part 3
The garden air hung thick with the scent of late-blooming roses and freshly turned earth.
Megan stared at Greg across the small space that separated them.
Her heart pounded so loudly she was certain he must hear the frantic rhythm.
He spoke her name again softly, as though she were something precious that might shatter at too harsh a word.
She felt her carefully constructed defensive walls begin to crack like thin ice beneath warm spring sunshine.
She took a trembling step back, crossing her arms over her chest in a futile attempt to protect herself.
“What sport could you possibly mean?” she asked, her voice brittle as dried autumn leaves.
“Lady Karen made it perfectly clear that you had wagered with your friends.”
“She said you bet you could make even the plainest spinster in the city believe herself worthy of your attention.”
The sheer confusion that crossed his handsome face seemed so genuine that her certainty wavered.
She pressed on, needing to lance this emotional wound completely before it festered any further.
“She told me everything at the charity gala.”
“She explained how you had all laughed about it at your exclusive club.”
“She claimed even your best friend had placed money on whether you could maintain the charade through a proposal.”
Greg’s expression transformed rapidly from confusion to absolute horror.
The horror then shifted to a fury so intense that Megan actually took another step backward.
His anger clearly wasn’t directed at her.
It was directed at some horrifying understanding dawning in his dark eyes.
“That poisonous, vindictive woman,” he breathed, the venom in his cultured voice startling the quiet afternoon.
He fumbled in his tailored suit pocket with shaking hands.
He produced a crumpled letter and thrust it toward her.
“Read this,” he commanded, softening his tone immediately.
“Please, Megan, read what my friend wrote to your cousin Martha.”
“I see now exactly what has happened here.”
“I cannot bear for you to believe such vile lies for even one moment longer.”
Her fingers trembled as she unfolded the heavy parchment paper.
She recognized his bold handwriting describing Karen’s tearful confession.
When confronted at a corporate soirée two nights prior, Karen had broken down completely.
She admitted to fabricating the entire malicious story out of sheer jealousy and spite.
She believed that removing Megan from the city would clear her own path to becoming Greg’s wife.
Each word felt like a heavy stone being removed from the crushing weight on Megan’s chest.
With the overwhelming relief came a flood of intense shame.
She realized she had believed the worst of him so readily.
She had fled like a coward rather than trusting in what her heart had known during all those precious moments they had shared.
“Oh God,” she whispered, the letter fluttering from her nerveless fingers.
She pressed her dirt-stained hands to her burning cheeks.
“What have I done?”
Greg crossed the space between them in two swift, decisive strides.
He caught her hands in his and held them with gentle firmness despite their coating of garden soil.
“You believed a perfectly crafted lie designed specifically to prey upon your deepest insecurities,” he said, his voice rough with raw emotion.
“The fault lies not with you, but entirely with me.”
“I should have spoken plainly of my feelings long before that harpy had a chance to poison your mind against me.”
Megan tried to pull away, overwhelmed by his nearness and her own deep mortification.
He held fast, his eyes blazing with an intensity that made her knees feel weak.
“Do you want to know the absolute truth of what was said at my club?” he asked softly.
She nodded mutely, unable to find her voice.
He continued with quiet, unyielding ferocity.
“I told them I had finally found a woman whose brilliant wit could match any man’s.”
“I said her beauty lay not in empty superficiality, but in the radiant light of intelligence that animated every expression.”
“I told them her worth so far exceeded that of the vapid socialites of our circle that I pitied any man too blind to see it.”
The small parlor of Martha’s cottage had never seemed so incredibly intimate.
Megan and Greg sat across from each other in worn chintz chairs.
The afternoon sun slanted through lace curtains to paint golden patterns on the faded carpet.
Martha had tactfully excused herself to tend to some allegedly urgent matter in the kitchen.
Megan could barely process the staggering reality of Greg’s presence here in this humble room.
Mere hours ago, she had believed she would never see his face again.
“I cannot bear the shame of having doubted you,” she whispered.
Her voice was thick with unshed tears as she stared at her tightly clasped hands.
“You had shown me nothing but kindness and absolute respect.”
“I allowed one poisonous lie to override every instinct that told me you were precisely the honorable man you seemed to be.”
Greg rose from his chair and crossed the small distance between them.
The billionaire tech mogul dropped to his knees on the cottage floor.
He took her trembling hands in his once more and held them with infinite gentleness.
“Megan, look at me,” he commanded softly.
She finally raised her eyes to his, and the tenderness she found there made fresh tears spill down her cheeks.
“You believed what any woman in your position would have believed.”
“You believed what society has trained you to believe about yourself through years of cruel dismissal and thoughtless words.”
“The fault lies not with you, but with a shallow world that has been too blind to see your true worth.”
She tried to protest, to explain how her own deep insecurities had made her so ready to accept his attention as false.
He pressed on with quiet, unwavering determination.
“Shall I tell you exactly what I see when I look at you?” he asked.
His thumbs stroked gently across her knuckles, sending shivers up her arms.
“I see a woman whose profound intelligence illuminates every single conversation.”
“Your wit has made me laugh more in a single month than I had in years previous.”
“Your quiet kindness to others speaks of a generous heart.”
“It puts the celebrated beauties of our social circle to absolute shame with their petty jealousies and shallow concerns.”
Megan shook her head, thoroughly overwhelmed by his beautiful words.
Some long-starved part of her soul drank them in like water in the scorching desert.
“But I am twenty-eight years old,” she said, voicing the first of society’s cataloged objections.
“I am far past the age when a man of your stature should be courting fresh young debutantes.”
His laugh was soft and incredibly fond as he reached up to cup her face in one large hand.
“And I am thirty-four, my darling.”
“I have enough exhausting experience of fresh young debutantes.”
“I know that I would rather spend one hour in conversation with you than a lifetime listening to their rehearsed accomplishments and empty prattle.”
She persisted through her tears, needing to voice every poisonous doubt that had taken root over the years.
“I am too plain, too tall, and too clever by half, as Aunt Brenda never tires of reminding me.”
“I have neither fortune nor important connections to recommend me.”
Greg’s expression grew fierce with protective anger, even as his physical touch remained incredibly gentle.
“You are absolutely magnificent,” he said with such absolute conviction that she almost believed him.
“Your height means I can look directly into your beautiful eyes without craning my neck.”
“Your intelligence is the single quality I prize most highly in any companion.”
“As for fortune and connections, I have quite enough of both for ten men.”
“I would trade every single dollar and every influential contact for just one more day in your company.”
The tears were flowing freely now as he systematically destroyed every defensive wall she had built around her heart.
He addressed each supposed flaw as though it were an invaluable treasure.
When he spoke again, his voice had dropped to a reverent, awe-filled whisper.
“Megan Miller, I fell in love with you the very moment you looked at me in that ballroom.”
“You saw not a billionaire to be pursued or a vast fortune to be captured.”
“You saw simply a man who might appreciate a genuine conversation about history and literature.”
“Every moment since has only confirmed what my heart knew from that very first meeting.”
She could barely breathe as he continued, his own eyes bright with overwhelming emotion.
“I love your brilliant, beautiful mind and your incredibly generous heart.”
“I love the way you bite your lower lip when you are thinking deeply.”
“I love how your eyes light up with pure joy when you discover a new, fascinating book.”
“I love your immense courage in facing a world that has tried constantly to diminish you.”
“I love your unyielding strength in maintaining your sense of self despite their cruelest efforts.”
“Most of all, I love the way you truly see me.”
“You see me not as the wealthy tycoon or the Robinson fortune, but simply as Greg.”
The words she had never dared hope to hear washed over her like a holy benediction.
He leaned up to press his lips to hers in their very first kiss.
It was gentle and reverent, and completely full of promise.
Megan felt the last of her heavy defenses crumble into dust.
“I love you too, Greg,” she whispered against his warm mouth.
“I love you with all my heart, though I can scarcely believe this is real and not some beautiful dream from which I shall soon wake.”
He pulled back just enough to look deeply into her eyes.
His own eyes were blazing with uncontainable joy and fierce determination.
“Then let me spend the rest of our lives proving to you exactly how very real this is, my darling.”
He kissed her again, deeper this time, with all the soaring passion they had both been holding in check.
The afternoon sun blessed their embrace through the small cottage window.
Somewhere in the kitchen, Martha smiled to herself and quietly began preparing a celebratory pot of tea.
The evening shadows lengthened across Cousin Martha’s lush cottage garden.
Megan sat closely beside Greg on the worn wooden bench beneath the ancient apple tree.
Her hand was clasped firmly in his, as though he feared she might vanish if he loosened his grip even slightly.
Her heart still raced from their profound declarations of love and that earth-shattering kiss they had shared.
A thousand practical concerns began to crowd into her racing mind now that the first overwhelming rush of emotion had passed.
“What happens now?” she asked softly.
She watched the play of golden sunset light across his beloved, handsome features.
The formal perfection of his usual appearance had been thoroughly undone by their emotional reunion.
His tie was askew and his dark hair fell across his forehead.
It made him look younger and more incredibly vulnerable than the polished CEO who had first approached her.
Greg turned to face her fully, his free hand coming up to cup her cheek with infinite tenderness.
His eyes blazed with renewed determination and something that looked remarkably like pure joy.
“Now, my darling Megan, if you are willing, I should very much like to make you my wife.”
“I find myself in the rather unprecedented position of having left the city in such massive haste that I forgot to bring the ring.”
“It has been waiting patiently in my study drawer since the day after we visited the museum together.”
The revelation that he had been planning to propose even before the disastrous charity gala made Megan’s breath catch in her throat.
She felt fresh, hot tears threaten as she realized how incredibly close they had come to losing everything.
“Aunt Brenda will be absolutely furious,” she felt compelled to point out.
The thought of Aunt Brenda’s reaction brought her far more satisfaction than dread now.
“High society will be scandalized that the city’s wealthiest bachelor has chosen a nobody with neither beauty nor fortune to recommend her.”
Greg’s laugh was rich with genuine, booming amusement as he pulled her closer against his side.
He was entirely uncaring that Martha or any passing villager might see their improper, close embrace.
“Let high society be scandalized,” he declared with the arrogant assurance that sat so naturally upon him.
“I have spent enough years playing by their shallow rules and finding nothing but emptiness and constant disappointment.”
“As for your aunt, I believe she will find it exceedingly difficult to maintain her position in society.”
“It will soon become known that she actively tried to sabotage her own niece’s prospects out of petty, bitter jealousy.”
Megan shivered slightly in the cooling evening air.
Greg immediately shrugged out of his remaining suit vest to wrap it warmly around her shoulders.
The gesture was so deeply tender and fiercely protective that it made her heart ache with the newness of being cherished.
“When I think of how I might have spent the rest of my days here, believing you had played me false,” she whispered.
Her voice caught on the painful words as she leaned her head against his sturdy shoulder.
“Never,” he said fiercely, pressing his warm lips to her forehead in a benediction of possession and promise.
“I would have searched every single corner of the country to find you.”
“I would have stood outside this cottage for a full year if necessary until you finally agreed to hear me out.”
“A life without you is absolutely no life at all.”
“It is merely an existence, and I have done quite enough of merely existing.”
The sound of Martha’s discreet cough from the doorway reminded them that they were not completely alone.
Megan blushed to realize that her elderly cousin had likely witnessed most of their close embraces.
Martha’s wrinkled face showed nothing but pleased, smug satisfaction as she approached with a warm shawl and a gentle smile.
“I believe, Greg, that you’ll be wanting to speak with the local reverend tomorrow about a special marriage license,” Martha said with surprising practicality.
“The whole village has been talking of nothing but the frantic billionaire who came racing into town like a man possessed.”
“It would be best to make things proper and official as quickly as possible.”
Greg rose and bowed to Martha with all the deep courtesy he would have shown a queen.
He took her weathered hand and raised it to his lips with genuine, profound respect.
“You are absolutely correct, Martha, and I am forever in your debt.”
“You provided crucial sanctuary to my Megan when she needed it most.”
“I hope you will not be too greatly inconvenienced by the loss of her company once we are officially wed.”
Martha chuckled warmly, her eyes twinkling with a bright mischief that belied her advanced years.
“I suspect I shall be gaining far more than I lose.”
“I have a feeling that Megan will not forget her old cousin simply because she has married into vast wealth.”
“I confess I should very much enjoy seeing Brenda’s face when she receives official word of the marriage.”
Megan rose as well, still wrapped tightly in Greg’s vest.
Her hair was tumbling loose from its restrictive pins.
Her face was marked by tears both profoundly sad and overwhelmingly joyful.
She looked nothing like the polished wife of a billionaire CEO.
Yet she felt, for the very first time in her life, exactly like the woman she was truly meant to be.
She was beloved and highly valued, not in spite of her supposed flaws, but because of all the qualities that made her uniquely herself.
Greg drew her back into his strong arms for one more lingering kiss.
Martha pretended to be very interested in inspecting her rose bushes.
She sent up a silent prayer of gratitude that sometimes, against all odds and expectations, the overlooked woman could indeed capture the heart of a man who saw her true worth when the rest of the world was blind.
The next morning dawned clear and brilliantly bright over the rolling countryside.
Greg made his way to the small local church with a fierce determination that would have amused his city acquaintances.
There was nothing languid or bored about him now.
He strode up the garden path with Martha at his side.
She had insisted on accompanying him to lend propriety to the proceedings.
She also wanted to ensure the old reverend didn’t expire from shock at finding a billionaire on his doorstep requesting a rush wedding.
Megan had remained at the cottage ostensibly to prepare a large breakfast.
In truth, she needed a quiet moment alone to absorb the miraculous reality that Greg truly intended to marry her with all possible haste.
She found herself standing at the kitchen window, watching his tall figure disappear down the winding lane.
Her heart performed the most alarming, joyous acrobatics in her chest.
The reverend, a kindly man of seventy years, received them in his study with an expression of barely concealed astonishment.
This astonishment gradually transformed into genuine, beaming pleasure.
Greg explained his purpose with a blunt directness that left absolutely no room for doubt about his firm intentions.
“I wish to marry Miss Megan Miller as quickly as the law allows,” Greg stated without preamble.
“I am prepared to make whatever financial arrangements necessary to expedite the matter.”
“This includes a very generous donation to your parish fund that I trust will help ease any concerns about the haste of our union.”
The reverend studied the wealthy man over his reading spectacles.
He took in the road dust still clinging to Greg’s expensive shoes.
He saw the fierce, protective light in his eyes when he spoke Megan’s name.
Something in the old man’s expression softened considerably as he reached for his official pen.
“I remember Megan as a little girl,” he said quietly as he began filling out the necessary paperwork.
“She always had a book in her hand and profound questions that would have challenged a university scholar.”
“Her late father used to worry that no man would appreciate such a brilliant mind in a woman.”
“I see now that he need not have concerned himself with such worries.”
Greg’s smile was both immensely proud and deeply tender as he watched the reverend write.
When he spoke again, his voice carried the heavy weight of absolute, unwavering conviction.
“Any man who cannot appreciate Megan’s intelligence is a fool who deserves nothing but pity.”
“I count myself the absolute most fortunate of men.”
“She has agreed to share that brilliant mind with me for the rest of our days.”
Martha dabbed at her eyes with her lace handkerchief, completely overcome by the romance of it all.
The reverend completed the documentation with careful, methodical precision.
He handed the completed license across the wooden desk to Greg.
Greg accepted it with the deep reverence one might show for a holy relic.
“I believe you will make Megan very happy,” the old man said with quiet, absolute certainty.
“Rarely have I witnessed such fierce devotion as I see in your eyes when you speak of her.”
Greg carefully tucked the precious license safely into his breast pocket.
“I fell in love with her precisely because she preferred books to ballrooms, Reverend.”
“When she looked at me, she saw not a vast fortune, but simply a man who might appreciate a real conversation.”
“In that moment, I discovered what I had been searching for through years of empty gatherings.”
They planned the ceremony for three days hence.
This would allow time for Greg’s mother’s ring to be couriered from the city.
It would also give Megan time to prepare whatever she might need for her new, extraordinary life.
“Three days,” Greg murmured as they made their way back through the quiet village.
“Three days until I can call her my wife.”
“I dare anyone to ever again suggest that she is anything less than completely perfect, exactly as she is.”
The morning of the wedding dawned with the kind of crystalline perfection that seemed designed by providence itself.
The small stone church stood waiting, glowing warmly in the morning light.
The entire village crowded into wooden pews meant to hold half their number.
Word had spread like wildfire that a billionaire was marrying Martha’s niece.
No force on earth could have kept them from witnessing such a spectacle with their own eyes.
Megan stood in Martha’s tiny bedroom, staring at her reflection in the spotted mirror with something approaching absolute disbelief.
She smoothed the skirts of the ivory silk gown that had arrived just yesterday by express courier.
It had been sent by Greg’s mother with a warm note declaring that her future daughter would not be married in simple gray.
The dress was the most beautiful thing Megan had ever owned.
Its delicate lace trim and pearl buttons transformed her into someone she barely recognized.
Martha bustled about making final, fussy adjustments to Megan’s hair.
She had dressed the brown locks with fresh white roses from the garden.
The sweet scent surrounded Megan like a tangible blessing.
“Your father would have been so incredibly proud,” Martha said softly.
She reached up to touch Megan’s cheek with a weathered, trembling hand.
“He always knew you were destined for something extraordinary, even when the world was too blind to see it.”
Megan’s throat tightened with sudden, poignant grief for the father who had encouraged her intellect.
She wished desperately that he could have lived to see this day when everything he had believed about her worth was being proven true.
A firm knock at the door announced Greg’s arrival to escort her to the church.
They had decided together to dispense entirely with rigid tradition.
They would walk to their wedding side by side as absolute equals.
She opened the door to find him standing there in his finest tailored suit.
His eyes blazed with profound love and barely contained impatience.
She felt her heart expand to accommodate a joy she had never imagined possible.
“You are magnificent,” he breathed, taking her hands in his.
He raised them to his lips with reverent, overwhelming tenderness.
“I am the most fortunate man in the entire world that you have agreed to bind your life to mine.”
They walked together through the village in the soft, beautiful morning light.
They passed cottage gardens bursting with spring flowers and curious faces peering from every window.
Megan felt absolutely none of the shame she might once have expected at being so thoroughly on display.
The man beside her looked at her as though she were the most precious thing in creation.
That knowledge wrapped around her like impenetrable armor against any whisper or sideways glance the world might ever direct her way.
The interior of the church glowed with the soft light of dozens of candles.
The village women had insisted on providing them to add to the romantic atmosphere.
Megan felt the weight of history settling around her shoulders like a warm blessing.
They paused at the threshold to let their eyes adjust to the dimmer interior.
Every pew was filled to overflowing with kind villagers who cheered softly.
Greg’s hand tightened securely around hers as they began their walk down the aisle together.
She could feel the slight, telling tremor in his fingers that betrayed his deep emotion.
This was the man who had faced down high society’s most vicious gossips without flinching.
Yet he now seemed completely overwhelmed by the simple sincerity of a country wedding.
The reverend’s voice rang clear and strong through the small church as he began the ancient words of the marriage ceremony.
Megan found herself listening to each phrase as though hearing it for the very first time.
She finally understood what it truly meant to promise oneself to another person out of genuine, unyielding love.
When Greg spoke his solemn vows, his voice carried to every corner of the church with an intensity that made several women reach for their handkerchiefs.
There was absolutely no mistaking the profound depth of feeling behind his promises.
He promised to deeply love and cherish this woman whom society had deemed unworthy of such devotion.
He slipped his mother’s antique diamond ring onto Megan’s finger.
The flawless gem caught the light from the windows and blazed with magnificent fire.
She heard the collective intake of breath from the congregation at this tangible proof of their union.
Megan’s own vows emerged steady and clear despite the happy tears tracking down her cheeks.
She watched Greg’s handsome face as she spoke the words that bound her to him forever.
She saw in his eyes a tenderness that erased every cruel whisper she had ever heard about her plainness and her age.
In this profound moment, she was not too old or too plain or too clever.
She was simply Megan, the brilliant woman he loved with all his heart.
She was the woman he had chosen above all others, despite having the wealth to choose anyone.
The reverend pronounced them officially husband and wife.
Greg cupped her face gently in his large hands to kiss her with a thoroughness that made the congregation gasp.
The entire church then burst into loud, delighted applause.
Megan felt something shift permanently and beautifully inside her chest.
The last remnant of the resigned, invisible spinster crumbled away completely.
It revealed the extraordinary woman she had always had the vast potential to become.
She was a woman worthy of profound love.
She was worthy not because a billionaire had chosen her, but because she had finally chosen to firmly believe in her own immeasurable worth.
The wedding breakfast that followed in Martha’s garden was nothing like the grand, stiff affairs of the city.
It was infinitely more precious for its rustic simplicity and genuine, heartfelt warmth.
Trestle tables groaned under the weight of pies and roasted meats contributed by kind neighbors.
They welcomed her new husband with the same straightforward hospitality they would have shown any other bridegroom.
Greg sat right beside her with his hand covering hers on the wooden table.
He seemed entirely unable to stop touching her now that he had the absolute right.
His eyes crinkled with genuine amusement as he listened to stories about Megan’s childhood.
Greg’s elegant mother, who had arrived just that morning, watched her son with tears of joy.
She embraced Megan warmly and called her daughter with fierce, undeniable sincerity.
Something inside Megan healed that she had not even realized was still broken.
The deep wound left by her aunt’s cold indifference finally closed over completely.
As the afternoon light began to golden toward early evening, Greg led Megan away from the loud celebration.
They found a deeply private moment in the quiet corner of Martha’s lush garden.
Roses climbed an ancient stone wall, and the scent of honeysuckle hung heavy in the warm air.
“You reminded me of my late sister that very first night,” he said softly, his voice rough with emotion.
“She was too clever and too unconventional for society, and they slowly crushed her spirit.”
“The way you observed everything with those keen eyes while pretending to be invisible struck my heart.”
“I knew I could not let the cruel world do to you what it did to her.”
“But then I discovered that what I felt was not merely protectiveness, but something far deeper and more profound.”
“You have given me the greatest gift imaginable by allowing me to spend the rest of my life ensuring that your brilliant light is celebrated rather than diminished.”
Megan kissed him then with all the overwhelming love in her overflowing heart.
The joyful sounds of village celebration drifted softly over the old garden wall.
The setting sun painted the vast sky in brilliant shades of rose and gold, promising a truly beautiful tomorrow.
THE END
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