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Feel it, every ounce of it. Remember that love is not something that you can save up an excess of and take out when you need some of it at a low moment in the dead of winter.

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One day, that voicemail from that relative becomes a memorial, something you listen to over and over again because you were too stupid to call them back when you had the chance.

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You become part of a team and can understand disagreeing about something even though, at the end of the day, you both just want what the other one wants.

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8. It will be long. There will be jokes about it being long.