Status Updates From The Days of Abandonment

he especially seemed a stranger who by chance had the transient features of a person who had been very familiar to me.

how much of him would i be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by cirtue of the fact that i loved them? what complex foamy mixture a couple is. even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesnt die. it doesnt want to die.

"i was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest i was well. i was whole, whole i would remain. to those who hurt me, i react giving back in kind. i am the queen of spades, i am the wasp that stings, i am the dark serpent. i am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned."

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