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    "description": "Peyton\u2019s mom and my mom were best friends.\n\nYou\u2019d think that should cover the gist of it. But, no... Oh, no.\n\nNot even close.\n\nYou see, Mom and Aunt Donna (as I\u2019d always called Peyton\u2019s mother) were not simply just best friends; I'm saying they were the-same-person-inhabiting-two-different-bodies kind of best friends.\n\nAnd thus, Peyton Royce had been forced on me since the moment she was born.\n\nWe were treated like twins, yet always expected to fall in love one day and get married. The only problem with that was I didn\u2019t love Peyton. And I'm positive she didn\u2019t even like me in return.\n\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. I adored our moms\u2014swear to God\u2014but they had to let this stupid notion go because one thing had become abundantly clear to me over the years. I would never marry Peyton Royce. I think it was my one goal in life, actually.\n\nSo... Sorry, Mom and Aunt Donna, but you two just weren\u2019t going to get your way on this.\n\nPeyton and I? It was never gonna happen.",
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