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"Do you still remember me?"
Strangers don't draft that line three hundred and sixty-five times. Former lovers do — then leave it in Notes, afraid the answer arrived too late.
This is Part II of Late Bloom Stories — after Part I: Late Blooming Cherry. Same promise: human connection, loneliness, courage, and a happy ending.
Portland, three quiet years
Henry designed posters. Maya worked night shifts as a nurse. Sunday coffee on Hawthorne. A text at eleven: Are you home yet?
Then Maya's father had a stroke. The family moved him to San Diego. Maya followed — care, work, uncertainty measured in years, not months.
Henry said: Wait for me.
Maya said: I don't want you waiting in limbo.
They parted at the airport without a hug. Not because love ended — because timing broke first.
365 messages never sent
Every year on the day they parted, Maya opened her old iPhone and typed the same question. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Rainy nights. 365 drafts. Zero sent.
She was afraid he had moved on. On lonely nights she tried random text chat — a stranger's reply for an hour, then silence again. The tab closed; the apartment didn't change.
Drafts are a kind of faith: you keep writing because letting go would hurt more than hoping.
The coffee shop again
One drizzly afternoon, Maya walked into their old café. Henry was there — as if he'd been coming back too.
She asked him to recover family photos from a cracked phone. Restoring the backup, he opened Notes: hundreds of entries, the same question, dates like calendar marks.
On the Steel Bridge, where they once promised even far apart, we'll remember, Henry didn't type a reply. He said it:
I still remember you. I kept waiting for your message — but you never sent it.
Maya cried. This time I'm sending it. She sent it — through her hand in his.
A year later they married. The old phone stayed in a drawer: 365 drafts, and one photo captioned Sent.
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Previous: Part I — Late Blooming Cherry
Next: Part III — Broken Mirror, Rain Street.
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