time is not a proxy for connection - by jaron

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for new-old friends

I'm constantly concealing my desperation. The entirety of my willpower is working overtime to stop myself from saying please, just stay a little longer. Behind my eyes I'm hiding how much I actually care, how much I enjoy our time together and how I want you to stay and sit there a bit longer so we can talk more. Or we don't even have to talk, you can hang around under the smooth weight of soft silence between us and we'll each do our own little tasks. That's fine too. You don't know I think this way, because I find the allocation of one's time to be a delicate topic, and blatantly stating…

time is not a proxy for connection - by jaron

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