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Do people remember the exact moment they fall in love?
The first time I saw her, my friends laughed because I stopped in the middle of whatever bullshit I was saying and stared. That’s not me. No matter how fine, no girl ever dropkicked me at first sight the way Yasmen did. I want to see her smooth brown skin, these sweet, full lips, the thick fan of lashes, on my children.
diaphanous.
physiognomy
but even in that new loneliness, there was a kind of relief to have only one thing to save.
Not my marriage, but just myself.
virile—”
to Regina George.
Ha, mean girl reference
surreptitiously
I’ve learned to tame grief, though, so it doesn’t run wild and ruin my life.
“No one is always okay, Seem.” I take his hand. “Life is not about always being okay. It’s about getting help when we aren’t.
