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happiness. It felt as if a load had been taken off my shoulders and I had never felt so relieved before. The girl was silent for a second, and I was visibly anxious about what she would say, but to my surprise, she accepted my apology and even offered to go to meet her grandmother. Who knew we would get along so well together after all those years? While waiting for the bus, we had a chat, and I started realizing that we weren’t that different, and I was so happy to know that. Then when the bus finally picked us up and drove us to our destination, her grandmother made us some tea and started telling stories, but this time thankfully, the stories had happy endings.

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