“Burn it down until the embers smoke on the ground. Start new when your heart is an empty room.”
We separated in mid-October. Six years of lie after lie and love after love. I kept his secrets because they wouldn’t understand them—people had too many excuses not to love him, so I kept them. I couldn’t stand the way people had judged him his whole life. …
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