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The town kept whispering, as towns always do. But Anika no longer bowed her head. She walked beside Caleb at Sunday service, her brother nestled between them, her chin lifted high.
When the stares came, Caleb’s hand brushed hers. In that simple touch was a vow—that love is not measured by the words of others, but by the strength to stand together.
And in the quiet of their cabin, as prairie winds murmured outside, she knew the truth: whispers fade, storms pass, but the kind of love they had built would last a lifetime.
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