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A year later, Brad and Priya were planting tomatoes in their community garden plot. Frank, the elderly neighbor, shuffled by with his wife's strawberry. "Doing okay, kids?"

The turning point came during a storm that knocked out power for three days. Candles, no phone signal, just the two of them in a cold apartment. Old Brad would have seen a "romantic crisis opportunity"—confessions by candlelight! But new Brad simply said, "I'm scared I'll mess this up."

Priya reached over in the dark. "You already have. Last month, you forgot to pick up my prescription. And I got annoyed that you hummed the same three notes for an hour."