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Forever: Chapter 8

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Early in the morning, before the sunrise, Valerie stopped in front of her parents' house, and with deep sadness in her eyes, she looked at the house where she grew up, as she'll never see it again. From the taxi's window that was taking her to the airport, she was watching the streets and places she knew well. Valerie remembered: here in this exact place, Timothy helped her to get up when she fell off from her bicycle; on this corner he kissed her; in this garden he picked a bouquet of red roses for her, and he almost got caught; in this little shop every Saturday afternoon when they were kids, they were coming for ice cream... She couldn't remember a single memory without Timothy being a part of it. Accidentally or not, from all the streets that led to the airport, the taxi driver chose the street where she had been living with Timothy for the past ten months. While the taxi was passing by her apartment, Tessa saw the tears in Valerie's eyes. She took her hand,