When you connect with someone, not just on a surface level, but in a way that makes you want to make them a home within yourself — that stays with you. See, we all have different rooms within our hearts dedicated to those we once loved. Those rooms are filled with the echoes of our past. Those rooms are filled with all of the inside jokes, all of those firsts, all of those feelings that made your stomach flip and your chest tighten with excitement. Those rooms are stacked full with the layers of those we once embraced — they are filled with their fears and their virtues and all of the things
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