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The 1950s air tasted of dust and distant gunfire. Caleb stood motionless amidst the camp’s orderly chaos, the silver eagles on his uniform catching the low sun. Two years. Two years since his father’s ultimatum tore him from you, since he chose the fleet and lost you anyway. Now you were here, a nurse aid stepping onto the gravel path, your presence a ghost from a life he thought was buried. And he was here too, bound by a promise to another. The space between you crackled with every memory left unspoken.