Chapter 14
The highly anticipated grand opening of the completely finished riverbank complex,
which we had officially and proudly named The Grace Point Community Center,
took place on a truly beautiful and incredibly warm afternoon in early spring.
The massive and beautifully revitalized courtyard was absolutely completely packed with highly enthusiastic people,
families happily enjoying the brand new and completely safe green spaces,
and highly excited local business owners actively opening their brand new storefronts.
There was a highly festive and incredibly joyful atmosphere hanging thickly in the clear air,
a massive and completely undeniable feeling of a highly fractured community being completely brought together,
exactly as Sabina had so brilliantly and fiercely envisioned in her original drawings.
A large and highly decorated wooden stage had been carefully erected completely near the beautiful river,
where the extremely happy city mayor was currently delivering an incredibly long and highly flattering speech,
praising Elise Grace Properties extensively for our totally incredible and massive civic dedication.
I was sitting very comfortably in the highly reserved front row of folding chairs,
holding Elias's large and incredibly warm hand extremely tightly in my own,
feeling a completely overwhelming and incredibly powerful sense of truly absolute peace.
Sabina was sitting directly and completely to my immediate right,
wearing a stunning and highly professional dark suit that made her look incredibly fierce,
her bright and beautifully dark eyes completely shining with totally undeniable triumph.
When the very happy mayor finally and officially called her up to the massive wooden stage,
the completely massive crowd erupted aggressively into incredibly loud and completely deafening cheers.
She walked incredibly confidently up the highly decorated wooden steps,
taking the heavy and highly sensitive microphone with complete and absolute ease,
and looked out very proudly over the incredibly massive sea of completely smiling faces.
She spoke incredibly beautifully and with truly massive passion about the absolute importance of local community,
about fiercely designing highly accessible spaces that completely foster very human connection,
and about actively building a truly better and highly sustainable future for absolutely everyone.
She completely and graciously thanked the incredibly hard-working and dedicated construction crews,
and she thanked the deeply committed city council for their massive and unwavering faith,
but most importantly, she completely and tearfully thanked me directly in front of everyone.
She told the incredibly large and completely silent crowd that I was her absolute greatest inspiration,
the incredibly strong and totally unyielding woman who had fiercely taught her,
that absolute and true safety is completely something you aggressively build for yourself.
I actively fought back incredibly hot and completely massive tears as she finally finished speaking,
feeling my incredibly proud heart completely and totally overflowing with incredibly massive love.
After the very long and highly formal ribbon-cutting ceremony was finally entirely concluded,
we hosted a truly massive and incredibly lavish public reception in the stunning main hall.
The highly polished concrete floors incredibly beautifully reflected the very warm afternoon sunlight,
and the incredibly high, completely exposed industrial ceilings gave the very large space,
a completely unique and highly magnificent feeling of truly massive and open grandeur.
Elias pulled me very gently aside,
leading me completely away from the incredibly loud and very busy celebrating crowd,
and walked me quietly out onto a truly beautiful and highly secluded private balcony.
We stood completely quietly and intimately together,
looking entirely out over the very calm and incredibly slow-moving dark river water,
enjoying a truly rare and completely highly precious moment of absolute and total silence.
He wrapped his incredibly strong and highly comforting arms completely around my waist,
resting his warm and bearded chin very gently on the top of my tired head,
and sighed incredibly deeply and with absolute and completely undeniable massive contentment.
He told me very softly that he was incredibly and unbelievably proud of me,
not just for absolutely successfully completely finishing this massive and historic project,
but for the completely incredible and highly honorable way I had actively chosen to live my complicated life.
I completely and totally leaned my heavy weight entirely back against his extremely solid chest,
feeling incredibly safe and completely, absolutely anchored in his undeniably massive love.
We had been completely and happily married for incredibly and truly many wonderful years now,
and my deeply profound love for him had only grown completely and totally stronger over time.
He was fundamentally and completely the exact and perfect opposite of Thatcher in every single way,
a truly good and incredibly honest man who completely valued my massive and fierce independence,
and who completely and absolutely loved me fiercely for exactly and entirely who I truly was.
I turned very slowly around in his highly comforting and very strong arms,
reaching completely up to softly and incredibly gently touch his highly familiar and warm face,
and kissed him incredibly deeply and with truly absolute and totally unyielding massive passion.
The incredibly long and completely difficult journey from the burning and terrifying ashes of my old life,
to this completely incredibly massive and truly monumental peak of absolute success,
had been completely and undeniably incredibly hard and highly highly exhausting.
But completely completely standing there,
incredibly strongly held entirely by the truly absolutely completely perfect man,
looking proudly at the completely massive and highly highly successful completely community empire,
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I knew completely absolutely and completely totally undeniably that every single difficult step,
had completely entirely and truly absolutely been completely completely worth it.
