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Let's start from the beginning.

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You want someone who's sensitive to your needs, but still decisive enough for the occasional grope in the closet.

The Sopranos

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Relationships are stories. When you pick a partner, you pick a story. And sometimes you find yourself recruited for a play you didn't audition for.

Esther Perel

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As if the weather had been listening, a cold wind blew over the fells then, and it made her wince as it buffetted her hair. Eugene opened the wall of his body and patted his big chest like it was where she belonged. She was too elegant to crawl. So Agnes stood, teetering on her black heels, and crossed the blanket to lie against him.  She closed her eyes as he folded his arms around her and held her safe. They sat that way for a very long time, not speaking, as they watched the slow gloam fall over the city. She was warm in his embrace, and she leaned back and trusted in the solidness of him. He rubbed the coldness from her shins, and she watched the freckles on his fingers as they slowly traced the sharp bone in her knee.  When he kissed her gently, she closed her eyes again and happily forgot all about the promise not to show him her udnerwear.

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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Ficus Decora Tineke | The Mellow SF

*Plant height will vary. The Rubber Plant gets its name due to the white sap that oozes out when a leaf is cut. The milk dries out into a low grade rubber.Ficus are fairly easy to care for since they fair well in low light, and have a high tolerance for drought. They are also not prone to having pests problems, plus they rank well in cleaning the air.

The more light, the more colorful.

Water every three weeks.

May cause mild oral and gastrointestinal upset. Keep out of reach from pets and small children.

purchasing a humidifier is a good idea or mist the leafs once a week, especially in the warmer months.

Note: Ficus have a milky white sap that oozes out when cut. Be cautious since that milk can irritate the skin and is toxic if ingested. Because of the sap, this is a harder plant to propagate. Also, the sap is a type of latex so anyone who is allergic should not own a Ficus to be safe.

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A comprehensive plant care guide for your Burgundy Rubber Tree. Learn all about its watering, light, humidity, and additional care requirements.

consistent, bright, filtered light.

mist its leaves to increase humidity.

feed your plant every month during the spring and summer with a diluted liquid fertilizer. 

mildly toxic to humans and pets.

best to trim your Rubber Tree in the spring and summer. 

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It was a kind of violence, what my father had done. He has brought us to a place we didn't belong, and taken us from a place we did. Now we yearned for all places and found peace in none.

The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin.

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I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.

Normal People by Sally Rooney.

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With only a little subterfuge he can live two entirely separate existences, never confronting the ultimate question of what to do with himself or what kind of person he is.

Normal People by Sally Rooney.

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One's thought patterns become different... when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

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“What could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?”

—Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

—Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

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love... unconditional... it's both the easiest and the hardest thing in the world.

Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

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Noticing details, that was good. Tiny silvers of life — they all added up and helped you to feel that you, too, could be a fragment, a little piece of humanity who usefully filled space, however minuscule.

Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

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“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”

--- From Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

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There was still something between us — friendship, inside jokes, a closeness born of many crises suffered together — but whatever we had, it was unfair to love to call it love.

Rachel Monroe’s “My Back-Seat View of a Great Romance”

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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.