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One day you're the awkward teen avoiding relatives at dinner and next day you're the relative that the new awkward teens are avoiding at dinner and your heart yearns to know them but you know that they do not wish to know you because they are finding and discovering themselves away from peering adult eyes and you, against your will, have become the thing that they do not wish to be observed by and you miss when they were small, not because you don't want them to grow up, but because that is when they spoke to you and were happy doing so. Because they did not shy away when you said that you loved them and because they seemed so happy and you know now that the weight of knowledge of the wide world is starting to set in and they don't quite know what to do with the wide world or their newly adult brains and they certainly don't want to be judged for their teenageness, so they retreat away from you and whisper to each other and stare at something in a book or on their phones or in their pockets and you wonder what pain and joy they are hiding from you that previously they wouldn't have, and somehow the most heartbreaking thing of all is that you know that someday the same thing will happen to them that is happening to you right now. And you wonder how many billions of humans have survived this cycle of not exactly heartbreak, but tiny heart fractures. Hairline cracks that barely leak. Realizing that they have become the danger to avoid even if they didn't intend to, and bathing in the sorrow and joy that comes with the uncontrollable passage of time. It happens so quickly that it's frightening. In less than two or three years. And you are left wondering what tiny sorrows you are currently inflicting upon those who love you that you won't know about until years down the line. You wonder what you've forgotten. What the adolescents know that you don't. What you know that they don't. And all of these thoughts go through your head in less than one second as your teenage cousin leaves the room during dinner, and you sigh a little bit.

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Come love, make me better than I was.