Alphabet Soup

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Almost Everything

Almost Everything

The things you do for love | Fiction | Almost Fresh Soup

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The story behind this story might be stranger than the story itself. Every year, I put a lot of effort and a lot of anxiety into my wife Shira’s birthday. Effort—because I love her. And anxiety—because I’m one of those people who attribute no importance to birthdays and I’m profoundly clueless about what to do on them. In April of 2021, the birthday ang…

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