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The word “loss” had a new meaning, or its meaning became clear: a person who loved me, in a completely unique and irreplaceable way, had vanished and took with him our relationship.
once caught me smoking in the parking lot, after our session, and told me to quit. “Life is so short anyway, don’t make it shorter,”
“Sometimes because the people we wanted to care for us, didn’t care for us, we live with a deliberate lack of care for ourselves. A way of getting back at them, through self-neglect.”
perhaps a buried desire to be rescued. And embracing a failure that you feel you’re marked for anyway.”
confusing the difference between making jokes, and being the joke.
If I laughed, I was part of the joke, not the object of it.
given you’re the best thing to ever happen to me, if you could give me the chance to try to be the best thing that ever happened to you.”
in the over familiarity of drunk emotion. A small moment is incredibly large, and everything has changed. We got here. The long way around.
