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There is the way she does not ask for this.

There is the way he knows she would not ask and does it anyway.

There is the specific and observable fact of two people who are in the particular and careful process of learning each other in the way that people learned each other when the learning was going to matter, when it was not the casual and approximate knowledge of people who shared a professional space but the specific and detailed knowledge of people who were paying the particular and close attention of people who had decided, without using that word, that the other person was worth the...