To be loved is to be known - by Carina - I've Been Thinking

"Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end"

There is something profoundly sweet about someone being curious about you. Someone wanting to learn every insignificant detail about you and how you function. Why you prefer this restaurant over that one. What volume you keep your TV at. How you got that scar. Your opinions on olives. To be loved is to be known. I know my grandpa doesn’t like pasta and that he prefers doing sudokus with a pen instead of a pencil. I know my grandma likes having the radio on while she cooks. That she writes down today’s temperature in a calendar, and calls her cousin at 11:00 o’clock every day. I know my…

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