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Dara's hands were there, steady, catching her like they had the mangoes. Only this time, the world shrank to the space between them: lantern light, his steady breath, the faint mango-sweet tang at the corner of their mouths from the mango candy she had insisted they try. For a heartbeat she worried it would be just another near-miss—another story that might have begun but not continued.
Title: The Mango-Stained Promise
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