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Wow you interpret the story, beautifully.
i love how you put it ! i agree completely- the author has a real gift of portraying love in a such a realistic and wholistic way, the story doesn’t just feel like indulgent fluff but still feels heartwarming and adorable. you’re definitely not reading in too deep, its clear that their friendship is very important and their romantic relationship doesn’t make it redundant. all their years of friendship wasn’t just to lead up to romance, and that is so dear to me.
it’s actually incredibly touching and really uncommon to see such an important emphasis on friendship. I feel like a lot of romances in general dismiss it as less valuable or at the very least not comparable to romantic love. Though this is obviously a getting-together story, it feels more like an interpretation of how meaningful love is in all forms it takes :) I’m probably reading into it too deeply, but it’s super refreshing to see a character that values friendship in a way that isn’t necessarily less than romance. It’s well written, lightheartedly funny, and overall develops and maintains a theme of universal love for friends/family/partners that I really like.