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We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

Now that we had laid our cards on the table, the secrecy, the shame were gone, but with them so was that dash of unspoken hope that had kept everything alive these weeks.

You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says “it’s Ok, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”