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I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

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From personal adversity comes great art

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He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

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James looked at the people around his table. He stared at each one of them as though he were looking at a magic-eye puzzle and he could see all of the different pieces and the colours but not beyond what was on the surface, and the more he tried, the depth, the revealing images, were kept away from him.

change, contemporary, family, life-lessons, loss, people

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

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You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

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Stop saying hurt.’ She turned on him; the wounded animal finally breaking free. ‘You fall over on the pavement, that hurts; you stub your toe, that hurts; you trap your finger in a car door, shit, that hurts. You did not hurt me. James. It was like you took a razor and pressed down hard in the tenderest place.

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Seeing him again had been a gut punch.

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After two decades there she was, in front of him, almost within touching distance, not faded like in his dreams, but bright and clear and vividly real, looking comfortably, almost defiantly, the same as she always had and then everything she had never been.

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She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

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Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

contemporary-romance, honesty, life-lessons, love, reality, truth

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

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