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She met Marcus when I was sixteen.
She met him at a hardware store, of all places, both of them standing in the same aisle staring at the same confusing wall of paint samples. He asked her opinion on a shade of blue for his kitchen. She gave him one, honestly, and he actually listened, which she told me later was the thing that made her notice him in the first place.
He already had two kids. Jonah, eleven, and Lily, nine, every other weekend.
So we became five people living on money meant for three. It got harder, not easier. He never once acted like I was the part that made it harder.
