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What if the person you were meant to find was someone you've known all along? Shiloh and Cary were inseparable best friends in high school, making promises about their futures on porch steps in Omaha—until life pulled them in different directions and they lost touch for fourteen years. Now at thirty-three, Shiloh is navigating divorce, motherhood, and a life that looks nothing like she imagined, when a wedding invitation brings the possibility of seeing Cary again, and suddenly she can't stop wondering if he'll be there. Rainbow Rowell crafts a gorgeously tender story about two people finding their way back to each other, exploring what it means when your person was standing beside you the whole time—you just didn't know how to see it yet.
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