#il libro viola

[anchequesto]

Things You Took From Me

- playing doubles with my dad - my deepest secrets - my dignity - my friends - gin - taking arthritis medication without feeling guilt - feeling powerful when I swim - decent music - the half marathon I wanted to run - tea with lemon - enjoying curry - my own goddamn name - orange juice - driving manual - Rome

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I thought I fell in love with a person, as it happens he was just a college radio station with a body.

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He lives out of a suitcase, we are in the same country for three months of the year, he dances with me while his girlfriend watches.

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Our love is dead to me /

But I believe in ghosts.

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So many ghosts.

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Somehow amidst all of the horror, you had built me a cabin in the middle of the trees next to a mountain lake and it was beautiful and I was safe.

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I want to study

every inch of your body

and learn every corner

of your mind

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There are so many of our secrets that are mine alone now. Goodnight my friend, thank you for the laughs. I’m glad you got to leave this world in love for the first time in a long time.