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My accent is not there often, but it’s damn sure not something I hide behind closed palms to my mouth.

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We chase each other around the city, learning about each other and laughing, your hands on my thigh and my fingers in your hair, and we stand on the platform at Islington and you pull me into you, and the entire world goes silent.

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Mamihlapinatapei: When two individuals wordlessly share a look that indicates interest, but both are hesitant to make a move.

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Apricate: verb | ap-ri-cate : to bask in the sun.

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In the sound of your laughter, I could hear a musicians’s hands skillfully caress the silver strings of a harp. And concealed deep beneath your cautious guard lay the slow croon of a saxophone alone on the smoky stage of a dimly lit bar.

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What I would give to know you, know your face, know your hands. To feel the electricity between us and know it cannot be anything but the forever kind of love.

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She is the night sky. The moon, the stars, and the infiniteness of life. Memories are born, epic and great, under her crescent smile. She is made up of romance and magic. She is made up of dreams.

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Querencia — a place from which one’s strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where you are your most authentic self.