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“Consider it broached. Go ahead, Suzanne.”
    “Why are you so dressed up tonight?” I thought to ask him.
    “I’m dressed up because I have a date with the most special woman on this entire island. Is that the subject you had trouble
     broaching?”
    I squeezed his hand a little. “Not exactly. No, it isn’t. Okay, here goes.”
    Matt finally said, “You are scaring me a little now.”
    “Sorry,” I whispered. “
Sorry.
Matt, right before I came to the Vineyard —”
    “You had a heart attack,” he said in the softest voice. “You almost died in the Public Garden, but you didn’t, thank God.
     And now, here we are, and I think we’re two of the luckiest people. I know that
I
am. I’m here holding your hand, looking into your beautiful blue eyes.”
    I stopped walking and stared at Matt in disbelief. The setting sun was just over his shoulder, and it looked like a nimbus.
     Was Matthew an angel?
    “How long have you known?
How
did you know?” I stammered.
    “I heard before I came to work for you. This is a small island, Suzanne. I was half expecting some old biddie with a walker.”
    “I
did
use a walker for a couple of days in Boston. I had surgery. So you knew, but you never told me you knew.”
    “I didn’t think it was my place. I knew that you’d tell me when you were ready. I guess you’re ready, Suzanne. That’s good
     news. I’ve been thinking about what happened to you a lot in the past few weeks. I even arrived at a point of view. Would
     you like to hear it?”
    I held on to Matt’s arm. “Of course I would.”
    “Well, I can’t help thinking of this whenever we’re together. I think, isn’t it lucky that Suzanne didn’t die in Boston and
     we have today to be together. Now we get to watch this sunset. Or isn’t it lucky Suzanne didn’t die and we’re sitting out
     on her front porch playing hearts or watching a stupid Red Sox game. Or listening to Mozart or even that smarmy love song
     you like by Savage Garden. I keep thinking, isn’t this day, this moment, incredibly special, because you’re
here,
Suzanne.”
    I started to cry, and that’s when Matt took me into his arms. We cuddled on the beach for a long time, and I never wanted
     him to let me go. Never ever. We fit together so well. I kept thinking,
Isn’t this moment incredibly special? Aren’t I the lucky one?
    “Suzanne?” I heard him whisper, and I felt Matt’s warm breath on my cheek.
    “I’m here. Hard to miss. I’m right here in your arms. I’m not going anywhere.”
    “That’s good. I want you to always be there. I love having you in my arms. Now there’s something I have to say. Suzanne, I
     love you so much. I treasure everything about you. I miss you when we’re apart for just a couple of hours. Every day while
     I’m working, I can’t wait to see you that night. I’ve been looking for you for a long time, I just didn’t know it. But now
     I do. Suzanne, will you marry me?”
    I pulled back and looked into the beautiful eyes of this precious man I had found somehow, or maybe he had found me. I couldn’t
     stop smiling, and the warm glow spreading inside me was the most incredible feeling.
    “I love you, Matt. I’ve been looking for you for a long time, too. Yes, I’ll marry you.”

K ATIE

     
    K ATIE CLOSED the diary again.
    She slammed it shut this time. It hurt her so much to read these pages. She could take them only in small doses. Matt had
     warned her in his letter that it might happen, and it had.
There will be parts that may be hard for you to read.
What an incredible understatement that was.
    The diary continued to put her in a place of unexpected surprises. Now it was making her jealous, something she didn’t think
     she was capable of. She
was
jealous of Suzanne. She kind of felt like a jerk, a small and petty person. Not herself. Maybe it was hormones. Or maybe
     it was just a normal reaction to everything abnormal that had happened to her recently.
    She shut her eyes