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by Laurie Frankel

But that misses the point. Love does not come from the likelihood it will be requited.

But what does it cost to think we never deserved any better, and this is just the way it is, and there’s no point in fighting?”

not just unrequited but unrequitable love, stories we know from the start will not—cannot—have happy endings. An

Happy is not an option for us. Nora understands this. But she imagines fair is still on the table.

There are so many people who have sinned a little and a lot. There are so many people who deserve some of the blame. But that means there is never anyone whose responsibility it is to take responsibility. There

Goliath is big and strong and well funded. He’s made so much money, either off your suffering or off not giving a shit about your suffering, that he can buy whatever and whoever he needs to ensure that his profiting off your suffering remains allowed or at least overlooked, which Monday would point out are not the same thing, but Monday would be wrong.