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All I Want Is For You To Be Right Here With Me

Angelo Caerlang Angelo Caerlang
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All I want is for you to be right here, healing me with your affection, taking good care of my worries, replacing my destructive thoughts with the good ones.

The Truth Is, No Matter How Strong And Independent We Are, We’re Going To Need People

The Truth Is, No Matter How Strong And Independent We Are, We’re Going To Need People

Marie Dubreuil Marie Dubreuil
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5,437 is the distance in miles separating you from me right now. 8 is the number of hours between our two hearts. And as I lay in my bed, looking at the ceiling and counting miles and days and hours and minutes and seconds, I find myself missing you.

I Wish I Could Tell You That I’m Surviving Without You

I Wish I Could Tell You That I’m Surviving Without You

Rose Goodman Rose Goodman
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I wish I could tell you that I am surviving, that you only enter my thoughts when the lights go out and my feet search for yours beneath the sheets. I wish I could tell you that long distance relationships get easier with age or experience, but they don’t.

I Want You To Need Me, But Also Need Yourself

I Want You To Need Me, But Also Need Yourself

Marisa Donnelly Marisa Donnelly
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Though I want you to fall for me, I don’t want you to fall away from yourself.

Please Don’t Leave This Earth Just Yet, I Need You

Please Don’t Leave This Earth Just Yet, I Need You

Marisa Donnelly Marisa Donnelly
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Stay so I can show you how beautiful the sky is on a summer night, or how the crickets sing their love melodies as the sun goes down. Stay so I can rewrite our histories, bring you even closer so I’ll never know your absence. Stay so I can kiss every wound on your heart, until you forget that you were ever broken.

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