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Never let them go.

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How did I not see it? How did I not realize that we did not share our worlds? I was just trapped inside yours.

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On Central Avenue, I picked up a hitchhiker, a raven-haired girl coming from the public library there. She was very pretty, and her perfume made my car smell very good, if only for a little while.

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The girl who used to hide empty vodka bottles in her bedroom closet has a baby. Everything is the same and changing all at once. “Where did the time go?” is a mantra we repeat at every gathering. “Where did the time go?”

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How often you creep on your crush on social media.

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You send them text messages that just contain nonsensical strings of emojis because you’re too excited to use actual words. But your friends know exactly what you’re trying to say.