#((i'm sure emily's tried everything in the book to turn herself back into a human; every folkloric remedy she could find))
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It was strange to come into work and find it so different, and yet not at all. In truth, very little had changed between then and now: The counter was a little bigger, the displays were situated differently, and the shop had of course expanded beyond hats made in-house and now sold mass-produced dresses, suits, and other apparel, but even with these changes, Randall could see the echoes of the past even in the present.
"I was right," he recalled, looking back to Emily with a little smile, as he turned his gaze from their surroundings back to her. "I don't think we ever would've gotten to where we are now if you hadn't been so bold as to ask me to meet with you here-I, uh...I don't think I'd have been able to buck up the courage to tell you how I felt, let alone kiss you.
I...I must've written you a hundred letters, trying to tell you how I felt..." he smiled, another memory lighting up his brain. "I-I'm sure they're...lost to time, sadly, I don't remember if I ever shared them with you, but...I tried again and again to write to you, to tell you how in love I was, but...I never had the courage to tell you. I tucked them away in an old hatbox; it was overflowing with them, last I remember..."
#((exactly; and he doesn't *want* her to think it's a rash decision; that he's not thinking clearly))#((he wants her to see that he's given this a lot of thought; a lot of consideration; that his head's on straight))#((and that he's thinking rationally-he knows how serious of a choice this is; there really is no going back))#((i'm sure emily's tried everything in the book to turn herself back into a human; every folkloric remedy she could find))#((and none of them worked; so she knows the permanence of this change; as well as its unpleasantness!))#((it's not something she would wish on anyone; let alone the man she loves))#((and in his heart; randall knows it! so he's really gotta make sure that emily knows he's thinking straight))#((when it comes to making such a monumental choice!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Dark Shadows
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