I once said you were so happy that it made me feel lonely. But the truth is, I was so hardened by pain that you couldn’t touch me. Relying on only a lover’s intuition, the way a blind man reads a cluster of braille, you reached for me, but your touch was painful, and it broke me down a little more every time. You were like acid on my limestone, unaware of how hardened I was. My sense of self had begun to disintegrate, and so I had to flee. Still, you know nothing of how it transformed me, nor do you realize how I altered your destiny. For you, being in love with a woman is natural, the same as
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