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Life’s Too Short
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moderate · 323 pages
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A travel-focused video creator unexpectedly becomes responsible for her infant niece and accepts help from the lawyer living nearby. She has built her life around movement, novelty, and the refusal to postpone joy, while he is structured, cautious, and accustomed to solving problems through preparation. Caring for a baby turns their differences into daily negotiations about sleep, work, risk, and what counts as a stable future. The romance develops through practical support rather than rescue: meals, appointments, interrupted plans, and the uncomfortable intimacy of being seen while overwhelmed. Beneath the humor sits a persistent fear shaped by family illness and the possibility that time may be shorter than expected. The book does not treat that fear as a simple lesson. Instead, it asks how to make room for attachment when avoiding permanence has started to look like its own form of surrender.
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