epilogue

I’m distant but it’s not cute or mysterious; I really want to be closer to people but it’s hard

really want to go sit in the middle of nature and not think for a while

me, a legal adult: when i grow up,

Men have no idea how good gentleness looks on them.

So fkn sexy.

In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.

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