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Happy Ending

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When her ex-husband starts dating another woman, Thea runs into Alex—the other woman's ex—and the two become fated friends, spinning a tale about how they were each other's "first love" along the way to make their exes jealous. Fast-forward two years, and what started as a fake friendship is now a very real best friendship. The only thing in jeopardy is their vow to stay 'just friends'. That platonic friendship is bursting at the seams with what looks like mutual love and attraction to everyone else.

When their exes invite the pair on a "two family beach vacation" to ostensibly help support Alex's daughter through a "big announcement", the pair reluctantly agree to go, and spending a week at the beach puts even more strain on their ability to not give in to their feelings.

The experience of loving a book is not complete until you have turned around to someone and said, “You have got to read this.”
Ann Patchett

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