A little bit of everything

[like-it-was-yesterday]

howdy

long time no see is a stretch to say the least.

[like-it-was-yesterday]

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

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You couldn't have known when you spotted him in the student union that his heart was three sizes too small.

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He was quiet for a moment. "Eve, do you think it was damaging to grow up without a father?" "Probably," she said, stealing his biscuit. "Is that what's bothering you?" "I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me." "Well, stop," she said. "I told you, figure out what's right with you."

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"I'd know you in the dark," he said. "From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with."

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I know that people change. I thought... I thought we were going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

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No, I'll never wonder what it would be like to have sex with someone else for the same reason I don't want to kiss anyone else. You're the only girl I've ever touched. And I feel like it was supposed to be that way. I touch you and my whole body... rings. Like a bell or something. And I could touch other girls, and maybe there would be something, you know, like maybe there would be noise. But not like with you. And what would happen if I kept touching and touching them, and then... and then, I tried to touch you again? I might not be able to hear us anymore. I might not ring true.

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It would have to be. I already love you so much. I already feel like something in my chest is going to pop when I see you. I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.

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Christine radiated happy when she was with Dave. And Dave, who could really, truly, be painfully intense sometimes--the kind of guy who leans in too far when he's making a point, who might still ne snippy with you two weeks after your D&D character had bested his in a swordfight--was loose and forgiving when Christine was around. Lincoln liked their messy-warm house, their messy-round kids, their living room with too many lamps and pillows, the way their voices softened when they talked to each other.

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It would be so easy to love Christine, to be in love with her. You'd never raise your voice. She'd never be mean.

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"Everything had been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough." "It wasn't good enough," she said. "It was good enough for me." "Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?"

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I mean, I was definitely head over heels. But, if anything, he was more caught up than I was, which is probably why we're still together. I needed Mitch to wear his heart on his sleeve. I was so insecure, I needed him to bang down my door and fill my room with flowers.

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I never knew when I would see him or when he would call. A week might go by and I wouldn't talk to him. Then I'd find a note slid under my door. Or a leaf. Or song lyrics written on a matchbook.

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I felt like a butterfly had landed on me. If I moved or even breathed, I thought he would float away.

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I'd rather you said 'I love you' because you were so full of love for me that you couldn't keep it in. I would rather that you wouldn't leave the house mad at me.

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Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

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I'm dog years away from being okay. But I don't think I can complain, can I? I want him. And he wants to wait. And I still want him. So I can't complain.

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