the intimacy of adapting each other's vocabulary, tones and typings

i’ve always found it fascinating — how love doesn’t just happen in moments, but in shifts.

i’ve always found it fascinating — how love doesn’t just happen in moments, but in shifts. quiet, ordinary shifts. like the way my vocabulary subtly changes when i grow close to someone. how suddenly a word i never used before becomes part of my everyday speech, just because she said it once, and it felt right. felt like her. like something i wanted to keep close. it’s not something i do consciously. i don’t sit there with a notebook tracking how i’ve started typing in “caps” the way she does when she is hyped, or how i’ve stopped using exclamation marks because she never did. but it…

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