But what finally dawned on me was that the right girl wasn’t like a recipe. At least, not in the way I’d been thinking. I’d been looking at love like I was the chef. Like it was a recipe I had to figure out and one that I had to cook. That wasn’t it at all. Learning to love someone was being part of the recipe. It was bringing two things together that were less when they were apart. And unlike the culinary world, the recipe only worked if you literally put yourself into it. Last time I checked, that was frowned upon in real life. Love was creating something entirely new. Realizing that was
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