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The truth was, there had been no single date for the end of them. No dramatic November 7th. It had been a slow rot, like October pretending to be summer one day and then biting cold the next. Small cruelties. Silences that stretched from hours into days. A Tuesday when he forgot to pick her up from work. A Thursday when she realized she hadn’t kissed him in a week. The final conversation happened on a Tuesday, but the relationship had ended sometime in August, during a heatwave, when they sat on the same couch without touching and watched a movie neither of them could name afterward.

She paused. The snow kept falling.

Marta stood up, walked to the shelf, and took down the notebook. She opened it to the last page they’d written on together—March 20th, the spring equinox. Sam’s handwriting: What I’m leaving behind: my fear of quiet mornings. What I hope will grow: patience. Hers: What I’m leaving behind: the need to be right. What I hope will grow: trust. change of season dates

Now, three weeks later, she stood in the kitchen making tea, watching the first real snow of autumn paste itself against the window. The weather app on her phone pinged: First frost advisory. Change of season: fall to winter. Official date: November 7. She almost laughed. As if the seasons needed an official date. As if November 7th meant anything to the maple outside that had been dropping red leaves since late September. The truth was, there had been no single