“You’re fucking incredible, love. How do you not see that?” He pauses and sighs. “You’re strong. You work harder than anyone I know. You’re smart and gentle and insanely beautiful and fiercely loyal. You don’t take people’s shit, and you’d do anything for the people you love. I never saw you as just the version of yourself that acted like you hated me, Wendy. I saw all the snippets of yourself that you let me see and all of the versions of yourself that make up all of you, and I was in awe of every single one. I still am. “And this new version that you’ve given me? I appreciate it more than
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