“Ara, you could not be more wrong. It is I who shackled you, and it is a regret that haunts me every day. Every day, I see the hurt I caused you, and I wish I could take it back. I wish I would’ve told you and courted you and convinced you to like me with pretty words and false promises, but I can’t, and I know that. But I also know that it is more than this tiny, insignificant mark on your skin that binds me to you. It’s you. All of you. Your strength and resilience. Your determination to endure no matter what fate throws at you. Your love of love and stories and hope. You are entirely the
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