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LIBRA: You convince yourself this person doesn’t have any flaws.

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Josh called, depressed because Chloe had come over that night to break up with him. She said she met someone else who was more “demonstrative” and who didn’t have a “laissez-faire” attitude about seeing other people. It was Josh, not Chloe, who wanted to make sure they were free to see others – yet it was Chloe who found someone who could offer her more than Josh could.

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As exciting as puppy love feels during the first few weeks, I would rather have newlywed love, the kind of love between best friends, not strangers.

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We made those origami paper fortune tellers to see if we should stay together or find new friends.

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Second Love: Oh, this one. The love that’ll destroy you, wreck you, but will furnish you to become the person you’re meant to be.

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Maybe they call it ‘falling’ because it’s just that—you completely trip, slip, lose control, and crash into another person. Head over heels. All of you. Into their open arms.

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When you are eighteen, you will be with someone, and you will truly think that you love him. You will think he hung the moon and you will think he’s changed for you. But he didn’t, and you don’t.

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We’re on page one. A fresh new story. I find myself reading every line of you, inhaling your words and your unspoken movements, excited for the volumes to come.