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2026005 | Shared Calm
It’s the first workday of the year, and surely no one is prepared for it. We leave before six, while darkness still blankets the sky—as if night forgot the time. The moon hangs high, innocently illuminating the clouds around it. It feels like even the heavens aren’t quite ready for another workday. As we cruise…
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2025365 | Twenty-Five
What a year it has been. I couldn’t imagine how I managed to survive such a difficult period of my adult life without the support of the people around me—my constants, and the new ones who came along the way. The year began with real struggle, with hope only faintly flickering in the distance. My…
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2025337 | In Other Words
She said “I love you” before we finally drifted off to sleep, wearing that familiar smile I can never get enough of—the same smile that made it hard for me to look at her back in September because it melted my heart. In a few days, it’ll be three months since then. She said “I…
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2025340 | Since 249
It’s been three months since I officially met you—perhaps at one of the most tumultuous times of my life, when I had resigned myself to believing that good things weren’t meant for me. And yet, it was also at a time when I was slowly beginning to reclaim my strength. In the weeks before we…
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2025334 | A Paper Bag Life
“You and your paper bag life,” she said after we got back home from shopping another set of clothes for me to wear for the next couple of days. If there’s a phrase that could sum up my November, it would be that. I said I’d write about it, but even as the month was…
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2025324 | Your Name
I wrote your name today, and it made me miss you. There’s nothing else here—just that: your name and this yearning for you. Last night, a colleague asked if I wanted to go out. I needed to, because I had to buy something I forgot to pack, and we both knew how important those were…
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2025315 | Wish
I caught myself smiling while watching a video of you from last night—everyone in that overlooking restaurant was singing happy birthday, celebrating a life they didn’t even know whose. And there I was, behind the camera, taking your video to remember this moment, celebrating your 29th with you. For all the right reasons, and one…
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2025303 | YOurs
Sometimes I wonder if I must’ve done something right in this little life to be lucky enough to meet you. The first time I saw you a few years ago, I thought you were interesting—with your hair in that vibrant blue. The next time I noticed you, your energy was contagious, filling the whole room…
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2025295 | Gentle
The happiness you’ve brought into my life is immeasurable, more than I ever imagined possible. The little moments we’ve shared remind me that life can, once again, be something I can breathe in—slowly, softly, freely. “I’ll keep you forever, if I can,” you wrote in your letter Sol & Luna—perhaps the sweetest gesture I’ve received in…
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