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I could change my appearance for you, but how am I supposed to change the way I am and how I feel inside?

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And I know, I know — it is difficult when every tender part of who you are has been bruised and let down by the ones who never learned how to love you properly. But you must believe in this love the way it believes in you. You must trust it.

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I wanted to find your lips in the half light, to drink you in, shed the sheets and wrap myself in you.

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True love is when two people’s broken hearts, with all the jagged pieces and sharp edges, happen to fit together.

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His hand is intertwined with her hand. In such a sweet way. In a way that says, look at us, we are together.

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The first time you said that you loved me, I believed you right away.

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I don’t remember who said “I love you” first.

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I still love you with all my heart but I think it is time to take two steps forward.

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If I could freeze frame what happiness looks and feels like, it would be March 17, 2014.

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You remembered him like it was serenity. You stop in your tracks, gaze at the sky, smiling as you begin to close your eyes; then you breathe — like it was your first.