If Only I Had Told Her
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This is heaven: her forehead pressed into me, her head under my arm, and my hand on her shoulder. We found each other by instinct.
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It’s more like Autumn is a real princess but from an alien planet. She is the most confident and insecure person I’ve ever known.
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It is cosmically unfair how beautiful Autumn is. It puts me at such a disadvantage. Her brilliant, goofy brain was already enough. Why must she have a perfect face too?
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How am I going to live the rest of my life in love with Autumn Davis with no hope of reciprocation?
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My love for her is the closest thing I have to religion. But it’s okay that she doesn’t feel the same. I’m fine. I can handle it.
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Maybe you are the two stupidest people on earth who somehow don’t realize you’re in love with each other,
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My devotion to Autumn is engraved on my very being. I am in awe of her. I will sit in the stands and cheer her on in life as her most ardent admirer. I know I will always love her in the same way I know I’ll always need oxygen.
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Books are Autumn’s real life. She is made of the stories she has read.
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All apologies, every apology, is forgotten, and my lips are on hers. I am only my lips. No other part of me exists.
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“Life can be and often is fiercely cruel,”
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We are all dead bodies that haven’t died yet.
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“Now while my lips are living, Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead? Yet if my soul remembered You would not heed it, dear, For now you must not listen, And then you could not hear.”