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In the weeks that followed, Liam moved back home for a while. He was embarrassed, deeply ashamed that he had pushed me away for a ghost. He admitted that Tessa had spent weeks feeding him stories about how I would never understand “true passion” and how I wanted to keep him a “little boy” forever, weaving a web of resentment that he had fallen into willingly. He had been so desperate to prove his independence that he almost threw his entire life away to the first person who offered him a shortcut to adulthood.
