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Just because one person wasn’t able to see your potential doesn’t mean that every other relationship will end the same way. Just because one person tricked you into feeling comfortable before leaving doesn’t mean the next person will repeat the process. Every love is different, so don’t let this relationship taint the ones you’ll develop in the future. 

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I am here to tell you that everything you are feeling and experiencing, everything you think you may never heal from, is so human, and it doesn’t make you less worthy of the life you crave.

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Forgetting you felt even more unachievable.

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There are memories that stay locked firmly in my mind of which I am both unable and unwilling to let go of between us. I find myself crawling through them from time to time, remembering what it was like to hold you so close.

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I wish we hadn’t sabotaged us this badly.

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They say to put the bottle down, that I’ll forget my own name before I forget yours. But the thing is, water doesn’t burn quite like whiskey.

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She’s a runner. She runs for no one but herself. She runs because right now, it is the only thing she can control in the midst of her life spiraling out of control.

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I wonder if I will ever write another love letter or if it is just another one of the things that I have stopped altogether since you.