True soap opera latches on to your heart like nothing else.
“Is this real?”
he whispers, and suddenly we are enveloped in a gauzy flashback to Deacon and Rayna’s wedding day.

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As always, Rayna did not let him give up on himself, or love.
“It doesn’t matter how much you fail each other,” she murmured in her soothing lilt.
“We must choose each other.
And I choose you, exactly the way you are.
And I’m going to love you forever… and ever and ever.”
Rayna Jaymes, saving the day from beyond the grave.