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Forever: Chapter 16

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On sunny days, Valerie loved to sit for hours at Trafalgar Square. While she was enjoying the warm sun, she was also taking pictures of London and Londoners. Even though the sun in London wasn't as hot as the Californian sun, she loved when the sun rays caressed her face and skin. More than she could ever imagine, she missed Santa Monica. She wasn't missing the hot Californian sun, but she was missing the life she had there. She was missing her family, her friends, for whom she wasn't sure if she should still call them her friends, and most of all, she was missing Timothy. She could live the rest of her life in a place with eternal ice and without the sun, but she could never get used to life without him. On this hot day by London standards, on Trafalgar Square, next to Valerie, sat a young couple of teenagers in love. They were around sixteen or seventeen, and they reminded her that she was also this happy with Timothy when she was at their age. She smiled, hoping that