Feb. 1, 2026

February 2nd - Groundhog Day - (Episode 1) - "Groundhog"

February 2nd - Groundhog Day - (Episode 1) - "Groundhog"

June Alcott has been reliving February 2nd for three years. The same disastrous wedding. The same vomiting bride. The same endless, numb repetition. She stopped trying to escape a long time ago. Then she sees a man she's never seen before—in 1,095 loops, something genuinely new. When she corners him, he admits the impossible: he's been looping too. For seven years. Theo shows her what the loop can be—not a prison, but a possibility. They drive to the ocean she's never seen, eat at a diner where only he remembers the waitress's name, and for one day, June feels something other than survival. But Theo has been hiding something. On the original February 2nd, he was the paramedic who held her hand while she died. And he's spent seven years avoiding her because he couldn't keep the promise he made.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Welcome to Romance Weekly. This is February second,

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Episode one, Groundhog. The bride is going to throw up

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at two forty seven pm. I know this because I've

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watched it happen oney ninety five times. She'll be standing

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at the altar, halfway through her vows, and her face

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will go pale, and she'll turn to the left, always

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the left, and vomit directly onto the Maid of Honor's shoes.

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The maid of honor will scream, the groom will freeze,

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the mother of the bride will faint, though I'm pretty

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sure she's faking it for attention, and I'll capture the

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whole thing on camera, because that's what I do. That's

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what I've been doing for three years. February second, The

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Hartley Morrison wedding, the worst day of my professional life,

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repeating forever. I used to try to stop it. The vomiting.

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I mean, I've tried warning the bride. I've tried switching

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her champagne for water. I've tried faking a fire alarm

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at two forty five. None of it works. The day

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has a shape, and the shape includes Chelsea Hartley throwing

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up on her best friends Jimmy Choos. Now I don't

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bother I just photograph it like everything else, wait for

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midnight and wake up in my hotel room to do

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it all again. My name is June Alcott. I'm thirty

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two years old. I've been living the same day for

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three years, and I've stopped wondering why the morning routine

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is automatic. Now, alarm at seven o'clock, shower, hair, make

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up that I'll sweat off by noon because the venue's

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heating system is broken and they've overcompensated with space heaters.

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Black coffee from the lobby, which tastes burned because the

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morning Clark, a kid named Danny who's working his way

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through community college, always leaves the pot on too long.

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Big day, Danny asks, as I passed the front desk,

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you have no idea? He laughs. He won't remember this

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conversation tomorrow, because tomorrow will be today, and today will

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be the same as yesterday, and yesterday was the same

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as the day before that. I used to try to

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connect with people, Danny, the bride, the guests. I learned

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their stories, their secrets, their fears. I thought maybe if

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I understood them well enough, something would change. Nothing changed,

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so I stopped trying. The venue is a converted barn

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forty minutes outside the city Rustic Chekh, the bride called

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it when we did the consultation. That was three years

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ago for me, one day ago for her. I've driven

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this root so many times I could do it blindfolded.

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Every pothole, every curve, every spot where the cell service drops.

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I park in my usual spot, third row, near the

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oak tree, and haul my equipment toward the barn. The

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wedding coordinator, a harried woman named Patricia, rushes over with

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her clipboard June. Thank god. The florist is having a meltdown.

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The groom's mother won't stop crying, and someone let the

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flower girl have red bull. The peonies are in the

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wrong shade of pink, I say. Tell the florist to

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check the second cooler in her van. She brought a

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back up arrangement and forgot. The groom's mother is crying

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because she found out her ex husband is bringing his

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new girlfriend. Give her a mimosa and keep them on

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opposite sides of the venue, and the flower girl will

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crash in about an hour, so just let her burn

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it off. Patricia stares at me, How did you? Lucky? Guess?

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I walk past her into the barn, the same fairy lights,

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the same hay bales, the same disaster waiting to unfold,

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like it has a thousand times before, but today something

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is different. There's a man standing by the bar. I've

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never seen him before. That might not sound significant. New guests,

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catering staff, random plus ones. People cycle through this wedding

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all the time. I've memorized most of them by now,

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but there's always some cou I've overlooked, some vendors, assistant

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I haven't cataloged, but I would have noticed him. He's tall,

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maybe six', two with dark hair going gray at the,

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temples and the kind of face that looks like it's

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been through. Something not handsome in a polished, way handsome

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in a weathered, way like a house that's survived a

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lot of. Storms he's not dressed for a, wedding, jeans

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a flannel, shirt work. Boots he's drinking, coffee not, champagne

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not the signature cocktail the couple spent three months, designing

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just black. Coffee like he's here for a completely different,

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event and he's watching, me not casually the way guests

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sometimes watch the photographer, intently like he's been waiting for

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me to notice. Him our eyes meet across the. Barn

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something flickers across his, face surprise, maybe or, fear and

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then he turns and walk out the side. DOOR i

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should let him. GO i have a wedding to, shoot

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a bride to, watch, vomit a day to. Survive whatever

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that man, is he's not my. Problem But i've been

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living the same day for three, years and this is

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the first new thing that's happened in all that. TIME

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i follow. Him he's. Fast by the TIME i get,

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outside he's already halfway across the parking, lot heading for

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a beat up Truck i've never seen. Before, HEY i call, out, Hey.

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Wait he doesn't, Stop if, anything he walks. FASTER i

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break into a, jog cursing my equipment, bag cursing my impractical,

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boots cursing the fact THAT i care about this at.

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ALL i, said. Wait he reaches the, truck yanks open the.

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Door you're looping, too aren't. You he. Freezes the words

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came out BEFORE i could think about, Them but the

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moment they're in the, AIR i know they're. True the

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way he looked at, me the way he's, dressed the

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way he's running from a wedding where he clearly doesn't.

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Belong he's like. Me slowly he turns. Around up, close

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he looks even more, weathered tired in a way that

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goes deeper than. Sleep his eyes are, brown serious and

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right now they're looking at me Like i'm a. Ghost how?

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Long he? Asks his voice is, rough like he hasn't

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used it much. Lately three years. You he closes his.

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Eyes something passes over his, face pain, maybe or relief or.

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Both Seven we sit on the tailgate of his, truck

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The february cold seeping through my, coat the muffled sounds

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of wedding prep floating across the parking. Lot his name Is,

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Theo Theo. Vance he was a paramedic before the loop.

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Started though he says before like it's a foreign. Country

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he barely. Remembers seven. YEARS i keep repeating, it trying

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to make it. Real you've been doing this for seven,

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years two, thousand five hundred and fifty seven, days he says,

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it without, hesitation give or. Take how are you not?

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Insane who Says i'm? Not he almost. Smiles Almost the

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first few years were, BAD i tried, everything staying awake past,

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midnight driving as far AS i, could checking myself into a.

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Hospital nothing. Worked the day just. RESETS i, know believe,

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ME i. KNOW i think about all my own failed,

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Experiments the TIMES i drove for hours only to wake

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up in my hotel room at seven. Am the TIME

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i took a whole bottle of sleeping pills trying to

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see IF i could sleep through the. RESET i woke

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up at seven a. M not even. Groggy so what

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do you do? Now how do you feel the TIME

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i learn? Things he. Shrugs, languages, instruments medical PROCEDURES i

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was never trained. For when you have infinite, time you

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can master almost. Anything what's the. Point it's not like

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any of it carries over the knowledge carries over the.

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Skills he taps his. Temple whatever we, are whatever's happening to,

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Us our minds aren't, resetting just the world around. Us

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i've noticed that, Too the WAY i remember every, loop every,

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detail every word spoken and. Forgotten it's, exhausting carrying three

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years of memory that no one else. Shares how did

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you find? ME i ask the, WEDDING i, mean why

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are you? Here he's quiet for a lot. Moment when he,

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speaks his voice is. Careful i've known about you for a.

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While i've seen you around town at this venue doing your.

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JOB i knew you were. LOOPING i can tell, somehow

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the way you moved through the day like it's already.

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Happened but you never talked to. Me, no why? Not

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he looks, Away BECAUSE i knew ONCE i, did everything would,

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change AND i wasn't ready for. That ready for? What

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he doesn't. Answer inside the, Barn Chelsea hartley is about

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to throw. Up i'm not there to photograph. It for

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the first time in three. Years i'm missing the shot

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sitting in a parking lot with a stranger talking about

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the impossible thing we. Share it should bother. Me the

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PERFECTIONIST i used to be would be. Horrified but the

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PERFECTIONIST i used to be didn't understand that none of this.

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Matters the photos, reset the wedding, Resets everything resets except.

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Us CAN i ask you? SOMETHING theo, Says, Sure what

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were you doing on the Original february second before the loop?

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Started do you? REMEMBER i. Frown it's been so long

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that the edges of that day have, blurred overwritten by

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thousands of identical. COPIES i was here shooting this, wedding

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same as. Always and After where did you go after the?

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WEDDING i try to. Remember the reception goes until ten.

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O'CLOCK i pack up my, equipment say goodbye to the,

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coordinator drive back toward the. CITY i drove. HOME i

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THINK i don't really remember. Arriving what route did you?

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Take the? Interstate probably why he's quiet, again that careful.

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Silence he's choosing what to reveal and what to keep.

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Hidden there's SOMETHING i need to tell, you he finally,

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says about why we're, here about why we're. Connected. Connected

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the loop isn't, Random. June it's not just bad luck

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or cosmic. Coincidence there's a reason we're both stuck In. February,

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second a reason we're both stuck here at this, wedding

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in this. Town he turns to face, me and his

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eyes are heavy with SOMETHING i can't. Name BUT i

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don't think you're ready to hear it. Yet that's not

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your call to. Make maybe, not But i've had seven

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years to think about, this AND i know what happens

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when you learn the truth too. Fast it breaks. Something

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he shakes his. Head let me show you something. First

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let me show you what the loop can be when

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you stop fighting. It what does that? Mean he, stands

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offers me his. Hand it MEANS i want to give

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you one good, day just, why before everything. CHANGES i

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look at his, hand, rough, calloused. STEADY i should demand.

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ANSWERS i should push until he tells me. Everything that's

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what the Old june would, do the one who thought

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knowing things meant controlling. Them but the Old june was.

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Exhausted the Old june had spent three years alone in

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a day that never, ended and she'd forgotten what it

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felt like to want. Anything this man is offering me

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something new in three years that's never. HAPPENED i take his.

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Hand a good. Day it turns out looks like. This

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we leave the, wedding just walk, away get in his,

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truck drive until the venue is a speck in the

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rear view. Mirror i've never done that, before never abandoned

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a loop in. Progress and there's a giddiness to, it

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a recklessness that feels almost like. Freedom where are we?

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GOING i? Ask? Everywhere nowhere doesn't. Matter he glances at.

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Me what's something you've always wanted to do but never

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had time? FOR i don't. KNOW i used to want

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to see the. Ocean which? Ocean any of? Them i've never.

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Been he, smiles a real, smile this, time the first

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One i've. SEEN i know a place about three hours from.

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Here we won't be able to stay long before the,

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reset but we can make. It we. Drive he plays

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music from a collection of CDs that's hilariously. Outdated he

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explains that his truck is from before the, loop and

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he's never bothered to upgrade. It and we talk about,

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nothing favorite, foods worse, jobs the, small meaningless details of

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lives that stopped moving forward years. Ago it's, easy easier

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THAN i. Expected he doesn't ask about my, trauma doesn't

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try to fix, me doesn't treat the loop like a

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problem to be. Solved he just drives and talks and

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lets me. Be at four, pm we stop at a

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diner he. Knows the waitress greets him by, name theo

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haven't seen you in a, while AND i realize he's

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been coming here for, years building relationships that, reset maintaining

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connections that only he. Remembers doesn't it? HURT i? Ask

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after she takes our, order knowing she won't remember you.

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Tomorrow it used. To now it's just part of the.

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TEXTURE i get to meet her for the first, time

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over and. Over there's something beautiful about that if you

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look at it the right. WAY i don't, know so

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IF i can look at it that, way you might be.

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Surprised prospective shifts when you have enough. Time after the,

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diner we drive for another. Hour the landscape changes, flatter,

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emptier the kind of rural nowhere that makes you feel

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like the only person in the. World and, then just

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as the sun is starting to, SET i see. It the,

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ocean not. Close we're on a cliff overlooking a, bay

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the water gray and churning in The february. Cold but it's,

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there real and, vast and moving in a way nothing

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in my loop ever. MOVES i get out of the,

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truck walk to the edge of the, cliff let the

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wind hit my, face tasting, salt feeling the. Spray three,

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YEARS i, Say AND i don't Realize i'm crying until

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theo hands me a. Tissue three years AND i never

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thought to do. This you are Surviv that's different from.

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Living he stands beside, me not too, close giving me.

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SPACE i spent the first two years of my loop

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just trying to get through each. Day it wasn't until

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year three THAT i started actually using the, time using

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it for what, anything, everything learning to, cook learning to play,

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piano reading every book in the. Library he, pauses trying

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to understand Why i'm, here why we're both. HERE i

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turned to face. Him the sunset is turning his face

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gold and, shadow making him look like someone from a different.

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Era tell, ME i, say whatever it is you're, HIDING

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i want to. Know. June you said you'd show me

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what the loop can. Be you. Did now tell me the.

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Rest he's quiet for a long. Moment the waves crash below,

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us the wind howls the Original february. Second he finally,

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says you drove home from the, wedding took the, interstate

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but you didn't make. It my heart goes. Cold what

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do you? Mean there was ice on the, road black

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ice near mile marker twenty. Three you lost, control your

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car crossed the. Median he's not looking at me. Anymore

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he's looking at the, ocean BUT i don't think he's seeing.

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IT i was working that, night paramedic on. Call we

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got the dispatch at eleven forty three. Pm arrived at

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eleven forty seven Theo you were still alive WHEN i

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got to, you. BARELY i held your hand while we

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waited for, backup for the jaws of, life for anything

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that could. Help you told me you weren't. Ready you

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told me you had so much left to. Do his voice,

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cracks AND i told you to hold. ON i promised

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i'd save. You the wind is roaring in my, ears

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or maybe that's my. BLOOD i can't tell. ANYMORE i

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didn't THOUGH i. Couldn't you died at eleven fifty two

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pm On february, second And i've been reliving it ever.

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Since he finally looks at, me and his eyes are.

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Wet i've been avoiding you for seven, Years, june because

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every TIME i see, YOU i remember the PROMISE i,

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made the PROMISE i couldn't. Keep the, cliff the, ocean the,

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sunset it all feels very far. Away i'm, DEAD i

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hear myself. SAY i don't, KNOW i don't know what we.

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Are he takes a shaky. Breath BUT i think the

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loop started because neither of us could let. Go you

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weren't ready to, die AND i wasn't ready to lose.

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You the waves, crash the wind, howls AND i stand

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on the edge of a, cliff trying to understand what

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it means to be a ghost who doesn't know she's haunting.

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Herself