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We were never just two, we were a promise whispered beneath the stars, a tide pulled by a moon only we could see, a thread spun by time itself, weaving us whole. You, the steady oak where I rest my storms, I, the river that softens your edges, and together, we are the valley, the mountain, the sky, a landscape carved by love’s patient hands. The world before you was an echo, a song half-sung, a book missing its final page. But then, you arrived and suddenly, there was color where shadows had been, laughter where silence once stood, a home where only walls had existed. With you, love is not a thing held but a thing built. It is the fire we tend in quiet hours, the bricks we lay in whispered vows, the roof we raise with every tear wiped away, every hand held tight, every night spent dreaming side by side. And then, one day - tiny hands, tiny feet, soft voices calling our names like hymns. Proof that love does not simply exist, it multiplies, grows roots, learns to run, and fills the world with new echoes of us. Years will pass, and time will carve its stories into the lines of our faces, the silver of our hair. But even then, love will not fade, for we have built something deeper than time, stronger than years, a home made not of stone, but of souls entwined. And when we are old, and the world quiets, when the echoes are softer but still there, I will turn to you, as I did on the very first day, and know with every piece of me, there was never another road, never another fate, never another heart meant to hold mine.