right when you’ve started thinking about retirement, pensions, that’s when love appears out of nowhere and shows you its true nature. And love’s no kitten, oh no. It’s a searing-hot supernova, with fangs and claws and a tail that it whips around, leveling everything that crosses its path. It’s a comet that comes crashing into earth, throwing it off course, changing its axial tilt and reversing its polarity, flipping the entire world upside down so that suddenly our well-trod paths simply no longer exist but rather end in the void, and now I’m plummeting in outer space, falling, falling,
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