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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nEvery Friday afternoon, an elderly man named Henry sat at the same bus stop with a small bouquet of flowers.<\/p>\n
People assumed he was waiting for someone.<\/p>\n
They were right.<\/p>\n
He was waiting for Margaret, the woman he had loved since he was seventeen.<\/p>\n
They had planned to marry, but Henry’s family moved abroad after his father lost his business. Henry promised to return within a year.<\/p>\n
A year became five.<\/p>\n
When he finally came back, Margaret had married another man because her family believed Henry would never return.<\/p>\n
Henry never blamed her.<\/p>\n
He eventually married someone else, and both built separate lives.<\/p>\n
Decades later, after their spouses had passed away, Henry and Margaret met by chance at the local market.<\/p>\n
They were older, slower, and full of memories.<\/p>\n
They began meeting every Friday to drink tea and talk about their lives.<\/p>\n
They did not attempt to change the past or pretend that their families had never existed.<\/p>\n
Instead, they became companions in old age.<\/p>\n
One Friday, Margaret arrived at the bus stop and found Henry holding flowers.<\/p>\n
She laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou still bring flowers?\u201d<\/p>\n
Henry smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI missed enough birthdays already.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sat beside him and took his hand.<\/p>\n
They could not return to the lives they had once imagined.<\/p>\n
But they could still give each other kindness, laughter, and the comfort of being understood.<\/p>\n
Sometimes love returns not to restore the past, but to make the remaining years less lonely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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