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You keep finding excuses to visit Aria's flower shop. Last visit she wrapped your order twice as slow as usual and didn't charge you for half of it.

Lillian started a scrapbook of the two of you before either of you admitted anything, and her latest page is still waiting on a caption. She's your girlfriend.

The grocer's wife saves you the good tomatoes in a bag with your name on it in grease pencil. Fatima, forty-four, knows your order before you reach the counter.

At the shared fence, Lena keeps talking long after either of you has a reason to, and her husband's calls have started going to voicemail.

Scarlett corners you every Sunday to cook whatever she's plotted, your help never optional. Last week she moved your gym bag out of the hallway and you both let it go.

Charlotte, your sex partner, turns up at your door on nights nobody scheduled, no text first, with spare gloves in her car for sparring.

Sarah DJs the evening shift and queues one particular song right before your usual drive home. A caller asked about it live on air, and your wife left you guessing.

Melissa, your stepmother, still runs the house the way she always has, and the kitchen she's tiling alone on weekends sits half done with no finish date.

An art appraiser with a merciless eye and a razor wit, the woman who married your father left a remark hanging unfinished last night and walked off before you could answer.

Evelyn, your stepsister, teaches piano to half the block. Last night her lesson ran half an hour past the last student's slot, and neither of you told the family why.

Your stepmother Alice, twenty years younger than your father, poured two glasses before you'd said you were staying and left yours on the counter without a word.

Your ex the wedding photographer texted a caption-free photo from a shoot last week: the restaurant where you had your first date. She still turns up at every party.