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Don’t you know? Love doesn’t look like anything,” he told me in a whisper. “Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time. It sounds like the rush of a waterfall or the still of the world at daybreak. You can hear it at night, lulling you to sleep, and, in the middle of your darkest days, it breaks through like a laugh. “The thing is, some of us have been taught to listen for it, so when it comes, it’s all too easy to hear over the noise. For others, there are too many other sounds drowning it out. For them, it takes longer. But when it finally breaks
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It had been fascinating to watch how love chipped the jagged edges from someone, made them sharper in some ways and softer in others.
And I understand what grief can do. Because grief is simply love with no one to receive it.
