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You might not miss them specifically. You might wish someone, anyone, was around to keep you company. 

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Would you encourage me to stop beating myself up so much? Would you wish that I did a better job of learning to love myself? Would you push me to take better care of myself, to think more of myself, to recognize my strengths more?

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Wanting nothing to do with a holiday you used to love doesn’t make you a Grinch. It makes you someone with a heart who has lost a part of that heart.

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I wonder if he sometimes feels stuck in the past like I do. I wonder if he starts to count the days from when we last spoke. I wonder if he fills those days with memories of us so he can feed his loneliness—is he alone?

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Sometimes people miss the way you made them feel about themselves.

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So now, when I hear her song, or I have a bad day and I think of what she would say. I still shed a tear, but most of all, I smile.

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I am sick of pining over men who don’t deserve the light of me.

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You think you’re over him…

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You can miss him and realize he is not worthy of being missed at the same time. 

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I hope you replay our fights in your head. I hope you remember the exact words you said to me. I hope you understand how much you hurt me and I hope that hurts you.