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“How do you package yourself to be appealing?”
“Maybe you don’t see yourself clearly.” “Maybe none of us see each other clearly. Not anymore.
“It made me feel small. Less connected. Like…like all of us in this big, bustling world are just bouncing off one another and I don’t have anyone who wants to grab on.
“No, that’s not what I mean. I don’t want to try. All I do is try. All day long, I’m trying and I’m so tired. Why can’t this be the one thing I don’t have to try at? Why can’t it be a thing that just…happens?
I don’t want to waste my time on things that don’t feel like everything I’ve always wanted for myself.”
“You don’t have to be alone to be lonely.”
It fills the living room, rough and scratchy. Coffee over ice. Thunder in the distance.
Something twists in my chest. I thought we’d moved past this, but Lucie is still so convinced the things she wants aren’t things worth talking about. Who made her feel so small?
“I like that. Thinking that I’m worth paying attention to. Something ordinary made extraordinary by the person you’re sharing it with.”
This is my home. These are my people. These are the things that matter the most. I have all the love I need.
“I want to feel it first and think about it second. I want to be in the moment
and not worry about what’s coming next.
My phone buzzes and I force myself to wash my face and brush my teeth before I look at it.
“I don’t want something perfect; I want something honest. Something that can be mine.”
“You tell me all the time you have all the love you need. That you’re fit to burst with our family and all the people in it. But I thought, maybe just this once, you could have the love you deserve too.”
I want her people to be my people too.”
