Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
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I flushed my wedding ring down the toilet and watered his houseplants with bleach.
Melissa
Lmaoooo vibes
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ability to stay furious, especially over the last year. Anger is a powerful fuel.
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Lmaoooo vibes
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At this point I’d settle for a guy simply because he has a penis, more than one towel, and no flags hanging on his walls.
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LOL
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“I’m beginning to think men are not sending us their best people.”
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“All they do is lie and throw off your PH balance. They are a constant reminder that we don’t choose our sexuality, because who in their right mind would choose to be attracted to men.
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LMAO
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Men will always hurt you and leave you and let you down.
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:(
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of the last few weeks differently now. I should have done more to welcome him here. I should have given him the benefit of the
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LOL
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There’s something about holding the paper in your hand, seeing the ink on the
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couldn’t erase it if he made a mistake, he had to think about what he was going to say before he said it—or he said exactly what he wanted to and didn’t need to change it. I looked over at the cupcake. I didn’t even want to eat it.
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minutes. He hadn’t posted anything in the last few days.
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:(
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She laughed. “No. Do you want to meet me? I was just going to have my lunch in there. There’s a new box of paper towels, so we both have a seat now.”
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They are so fkin cute
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I finally decided on a sandwich—no onions and no spinach in case it got stuck in my teeth—with a fruit cup.
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Lolll me af always planning on what im gonna eat on a first date
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Eating was intimate. It took me a long time to truly feel comfortable doing it in front of someone.
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Relatable.. still struggle with this!
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Wouldn’t it be amazing to live like that? To not carry that burden around with you. To not feel constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated and second-guess every little thing.
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Anxiety is a bitch :/
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were going on simultaneously, eating away at him, terrifying him, tormenting him. And once he started down that path, it was so hard to stop the progression. It
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They are so fkin cute
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is going to know what we’re doing, and it’s going to be fine. Trust me.” He let out a long breath through his nose. “Okay.”
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Lolll me af always planning on what im gonna eat on a first date
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in the driveway. He sat staring up at the home through the windshield. “It’s going to be chaos in
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Relatable.. still struggle with this!
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He shook his head. “I don’t think you should have to touch me as part of this deal. I think we can pull this off without it.” “I don’t mind it.” He shook his head. “I think we’ll be
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Anxiety is a bitch :/
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“I always think that when we’re quiet, we’re agreeing to be harmless to each other. That we’re just sharing the same space and letting each other exist exactly as we are, and neither of us would hurt or upset the other one.”
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Ugh my heart
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I liked that he managed his mental health. Better than punching holes in walls.
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Lol its giving white boy HAHA
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I was tired of making excuses for why it was okay to accept less than I deserved. At the very least I deserved to be with someone who had worked through their own shit.
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Relatable right now :(
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He was like a living lullaby. A softly spoken word. The smell of coffee and toast in the morning or a cozy fleece blanket. The rain pattering on the roof on a day where you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything.
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Goddddddd
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“Anyone who says money isn’t everything has never had to live without it.”
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Frfr
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“You’re replacing your chairs because I came over one time and casually said you should have a sofa?” “I want to have the kind of living room you like.”
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This made me ugly cry lol
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Fictional men written by women >>>>
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girlfriend that he was planning to tell me was a work trip. When we flew places, he flew us coach. You know what I didn’t see in Nick’s search results? Not a single search result for pregnancy. Or parenthood. Or cribs or car seats or baby names… Anyway.
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Ugh my heart
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I think the nurses tell it to their boyfriends to scare them straight or—”
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Lol its giving white boy HAHA
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“He’s probably too skinny too. You doctors never eat. I’m making pupusas, come help me with the masa.” She went back to the kitchen without waiting for me.
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PUPUSAS ARE FIRE
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he’d be in his rumpled pajamas and a T-shirt that probably smelled like him. And he just looked so…lovable.
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be upset. All this, me and her—this was a favor. This wasn’t real. We weren’t fucking REAL. Her phone pinged again. Then again. And again. It wasn’t loud, but my reaction
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Relatable right now :(
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Living in all his quiets.
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Ugh
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such a good kisser. It wasn’t even funny how good he was. If he’d kissed me before this, I would have been a goner weeks ago. I started to get worked up even thinking about it. All I could think about was touching him, the
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Goddddddd
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you’re texting Levi.” I blinked at him. “That day at the luau? I was fighting with
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Frfr
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“Jacob, I am so in love with you I can’t even stand it.”
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FINALLY
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“This is what it feels like to be truly loved.
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Ugly crying again
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We ran out of condoms so many times that Jacob finally went to Costco to get the bulk box.
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LMAO damn
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Even if it feels perfect, even if they feel perfect—perfect isn’t actually perfect. There’s always the chance of rejection.
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Yep ://
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She was quiet. “You can’t give me what I need.” “Try me.” She searched my face. “I need to be able to see into your soul.” I shook my head. “I love you. You know that.” But I could see in her eyes that
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This made me ugly cry lol
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the trellis with Lieutenant Dan, who hopped on one foot at the sight of us coming. Rosa and Gil were beaming as we passed. Gibson and his wife were in the same row. Gibson still hadn’t
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PUPUSAS ARE FIRE
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FINALLY