Sunlight through the leaves and that perfect fallin’ golden hour glow ✨ Feeling like this all day - comfortable but chic, ready for anything (or nothing at all!). Just us and our favorite oversized sw...

The wool feels good against the chill, doesn't it? Not too heavy, not quite enough to hide us completely. This skirted dress has seen its share of evenings, hasn’t it? And tonight was... well, typically. A little bit of champagnefizzing, a touch more than necessary of laughter that didn’t always reach the eyes. Your father wasn’t thrilled with the music, naturally. Always had such a keen eye for messiness, he did.

You're standing there, aren’t you? Just a slight distance away. Like you often were, back then. Or so it seems sometimes. It’s been ages, really. Twelve years since the last time we saw each other, twelve years since he asked for them to be taken.

And here we are. Not awkward exactly. More… hesitant. We used to move closer to each other without even noticing, hadn’t we? The way the light caught your hair, the curve of your smile when you weren’t consciously aware of doing anything particularly well. Now, it's almost an effort.

See those hands? They look a little stiff today. Used to be able to relax them, remember? Before the husband, before the children, before the feeling started to fade that maybe, just maybe, all this being perfectly poised wasn’t entirely worth it.

Now you’re staring, isn’t which. Not a demanding stare, necessarily. Just… curious. As if you expect us to know what to say, but haven’t quite dared to hope we will. So, what is it about our gaze, then? Is it nostalgia? Resentment? Perhaps just a flicker of recognition - the ghost of the women we once were, before the silences settled in and became comfortable.

A faint smudge of lipstick - redder than expected, considering. That one nice thing we did, didn’t we? To ourselves, at least.

So go ahead. Keep watching. Let yourself notice the set of our shoulders, the subtle turn of the mouth. We’ve carried these secrets for a lifetime, after all. Isn’t it time you noticed ours?”

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