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Loving someone who holds themselves responsible for you — who has placed themselves in the category of guardian, protector, the […]

There is an intimacy in trusting someone with your safety — a specific, involuntary closeness that arrives not through choice

Building walls so well that you almost believe in them yourself is a particular kind of achievement. The humor that

There is an experience specific to invisibility — not the invisibility of absence but the invisibility of presence. Being in

There is a strange power in a promise made long ago — the way it waits for you in a

The specific thrill of a man who frightens everyone else but is inexplicably, privately gentle with you — who makes

There is a quiet, particular devastation in loving someone who looks right through you. Who has known you long enough

The man who takes everything and then cannot take his eyes off her. Who arrives with force and certainty and

Being truly seen by someone who had no reason to look twice — who had every social signal telling them

There is a specific fantasy in wishing, in your lowest moment, that someone would simply appear. Not to fix it