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“I think you’re beautiful, Ban.”
“There will be men who fall in love with your skin and others who drown themselves in everything that lies beneath.”
The gulf between the truth and the lies we tell ourselves is filled with misery.
“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you."
I don’t believe in fate. “The universe” is not some omnipotent force moving us around like chess pieces, manipulating us or protecting us or colliding us. Work hard, good things happen. Or not.
“I don’t give a damn about odds,” she says. “Odds don’t tell me what I can’t do. Odds just tell me how hard I’ll have to work to get what I want. Don’t allow anyone to make you feel less.”
“What I’m saying is be unafraid to want it all and be disciplined enough to work hard to get it.”
She is day and I am night. When day and night are absolutely equal, it’s equinox. Banner is my equinox. My equal. The revelation rattles around inside me, but my face, my surface remains smooth.
Jared Foster is everywhere. In my dreams. In my conversations. In my thoughts. And now in my damn house.
