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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

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Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

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Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

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But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest rec...more

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.