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Seek SF melancholy story about woman who waits for her partner

A short story probably over 30 years old.

Man is convicted of political crimes and sentenced to suspended animation for 100 years without possibility of parole.

On defrost he gets apology and wanders into a changed world. He makes his way to old neighbourhood that is much changed except his old house. On a whim he tries the biometric door lock and it actually opens.

He discovers his partner has waited for him and is scared he won't like her wrinkles. She took on relativistic space flight stewardess work to gain maximum time dilation effects.

Makes me kind of emotional every time I think of it.

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