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phm spoilers!! 🪐 because Rocky deserves a bangin' Phil Collins song too!! 🎸

light a candle when you work. put on lipstick for the grocery store. play that song that makes you feel like you're in a coming-of-age montage. take the long way home. write love letters to no one. read poetry out loud to your plants. the secret isn't that life is inherently romantic—it's that you can MAKE it romantic by paying attention, by adding ceremony to the mundane, by refusing to let a single ordinary day pass unloved.

It’s easy to imagine the grip fear and grief had on her heart that night, and how keenly she would have felt relief when she saw Barney the next morning. That crushing pressure followed by release very well would have felt as if she’d “died and come back to life,” as she tells Barney at the end of Chapter 32. So, while yes, it was a shock, and yes, it was one of joy, it was also so much more than that. It was facing down fear and loneliness and finding a reprieve from both; it was a heart that went from wrenched and aching to relieved and jubilant in the space of a beat. A heart that was not supposed to withstand the least bit of strain, a heart that proved itself far stronger than Valancy had given it credit for, even in the days before she thought she was dying.

My illustration for the poster of Paris Citypop 2026 !

"i hate to say it, but you were right"

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