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LITTLE THINGS
The Little Notes
Finding love in life’s smallest gestures
Sophie had always been all business this and all responsibility that, the hustle bustle to cross things off of her list. But now, she has been so tired from just the grind — work and running endlessly doing trivial things.
What she was truly missing and never even understood during those years were the moments between letting go of all hope of being alone — until one night when she returned home on her kitchen island — she found a note.
It was from her husband, Ethan — he was on an active-duty mission with hardly any ways of communicating.
That read: “Just wanted to remind you how much I love you and that you are doing great.”
For whatever reason, those words hit Sophie harder than she expected, and that earned her a smile. The mild masking simplicity in her everything, nothing major, nothing huge. And yet, it meant everything.
The next day Sophie was there with her coffee and another note under the cup: “I wish you a fantastic day today, as beautiful as you are.”
And she just laughed. And so, without Ethan even there, she felt overpowered by his affection. The notes, the little love slips tucked away where she never thought to look for small…