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If I could tell my younger self-anything it would be to put down your phone and wait for the person who shows the fuck up not that one who says he will.

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She has to ignore you for her own good even though it kills her to do so.

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It was a sudden explosion, her entrance into my life. The rush was in full effect, slobbering like teenagers, still too classy for Bushwick, the sun set over both of us that night.

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He has this beautiful, dazzling smile that shot a hole right through that wall I had built up. His eyes are this paralyzing, sparkling shade of turquoise and every time I looked at him I found myself in a state of enchantment. His world burned so bright, and I had to get in.

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You see, women like to hook up – but not with guys who are keeping us guessing with their obscure communication efforts. We like to hook up with guys who are into us, who think about us often enough to send a text every few days.

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The whole time you were convinced that you would be their right person. And that you would be the person to make a difference. To change their perception of relationships and being committed to just one person. You were convinced that you were different from the rest. And that you could make them fall in love with you.

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We idealise romantic love in a way that can be damaging, it creates this fantasy that can’t really be lived up to. 

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“Be yourself. You don’t have to try to be like someone else. We like you for being authentic.”

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Love isn’t something that should be found second-hand. It doesn’t work like that.

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You could keep asking what did you do to ruin it but she won’t be able to answer because it was all the things that you did not do and all the words you never said.