that loving deeply, pouring yourself into who and what you love, is paradoxically both the easiest and hardest thing we do. It requires vulnerability and bravery and trust and hope, the risk of cracking ourselves open, our pasts, our fears, our hurts, which the world has taught us to guard and to hide. That vulnerability is hard and frightening . . . but it also grants us the most beautiful gift that would otherwise be impossible, when we find those who wrap their arms around all of us and love all of us; when we find safe spaces with those who see us in our full humanity and affirm that
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