“Baby, we are so much alike,” she confessed, shaking her head. “We both handled our trauma in different ways…but ultimately, we never knew how to receive love fully. Me? I created expectations for love, knowing many wouldn’t be able to live up to them. Eventually, someone would make a mistake, and I’d never have to worry about being abandoned. Because I would do the abandoning. “And you…you never felt you deserved the life you had. So, you gambled with it, then built a web of lies to hold onto it, terrified of me abandoning you. But we’re not there anymore. We’re here. With a power in knowing
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