“Oh honey.” Gloria leaned forward until she was hugging me. Again, like it had the first time, it completely wrecked me. I could feel my throat throb in pain as I held back tears, until I finally couldn’t bear it. “No one ever talks about that part of love, how imperfect and painful it is, how necessary it is to fully love and appreciate someone.” She rubbed soothing circles into my back as tears fell down my face, pooling at the tip of my nose and crashing to her shoulder. “Sweet girl, you’re worthy of that same sacrifice, that same devotion. You deserve someone to love you like that, and if
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