[He lifts his head to look at her again, not realizing he'd lowered it. If you'd asked him days ago if he'd have loved for someone to say that, he would have laughed.]
[But for some reason, a relative stranger saying it gets a real smile out of him, finally.]
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[But for some reason, a relative stranger saying it gets a real smile out of him, finally.]
Thanks. And I mean that.