Love Doesn't Fade, But You Do - by Autumn Christian
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Maybe love isn't the problem. It's your ideas about what it's supposed to mean.
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein I used to hate saying the words, "I love you." They felt heavy and metallic. They didn't seem real. They had no juice and no verve behind them. It was just a thing that people said to each other, like "Bless you," or "Everything's going to work out." Love poetry bored me because I couldn't understand how anyone's limbs could be compared to a flower or their face to a sunset. Pretty words couldn't make a pretty reality. Then I actually fell in love. Or so I thought. When I…
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