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When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set ...more

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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK ...more

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So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will neve...more

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her...more

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I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people,...more

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...and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

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. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day....more

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He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive...more

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He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to...more

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... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to l...more

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All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a w...more