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Andrew listened to the conversation.

While he went to the other room, Rachel gathered up the cards they were playing with his daughter. “Maybe we should play Candy Land next time,” he heard her say to Maura. “I’m pretty good at that game.”

“You really like Candy Land?” the girl asked.

“It was one of my favorite games when I was a kid.”

“I didn’t know it was that old,” Maura said so solemnly that Rachel had to laugh.

“Even my mother played it when she was a little girl,” she told the child.

“My mommy’s dead,” Maura told her.

“I know. I’m sorry.”

“Maybe someday I could get a new mommy. But she’ll have to be someone my daddy likes.”

“That would probably help,” Rachel agreed.

“Daddy likes you,” Maura said.

And that was Andrew’s cue. He stepped back into the room before his daughter proposed right there and then.

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