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6 years, 4 months ago

neither of us brought marriage up. topic/heartbreak

A couple’s ambivalence can be held between two people: we both feel a little of each side, but one person is yes, and the other one no. When we first started dating, we said, We’ll date for a long time, and then we started on that long time right away. Back then, we thought maybe we would get marri…

—p.169 n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex Holding Patterns (165) by Alice Abraham
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6 years, 4 months ago

neither of us brought marriage up. topic/heartbreak

A couple’s ambivalence can be held between two people: we both feel a little of each side, but one person is yes, and the other one no. When we first started dating, we said, We’ll date for a long time, and then we started on that long time right away. Back then, we thought maybe we would get marri…

—p.169 Holding Patterns (165) by Alice Abraham
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6 years, 4 months ago

it’s not personal enough for any of them

I want to demonstrate it for you more clearly. We’re sitting in the restaurant, and I have an air of sad expectation. I revert to silence, which is the most basic form of agreement, of disallowing any distance to emerge between the two of us. Oliver tells me he’s thinking about quitting a group he’…

—p.168 Holding Patterns (165) by Alice Abraham
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in my dreams, I think I can conquer death

[...] Two nights after the dream of my grandmother, I dreamt (I was in a spate of dreaming) I was hiking with my parents in a valley. It was so dark that everything looked gray, with trees as darker shapes and rocks as light shapes. Ahead of us, suddenly, we saw a pair of glowing red eyes amid the …

—p.167 Holding Patterns (165) by Alice Abraham
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not only ever the one to be hurt

It had been two, maybe three months since we had last spoken. There had been no catastrophic event, no falling out. Everett Everett had started seeing someone and our friendship waned. I already miss you, I wrote to Everett Everett. Our email archive ends there. He never replied. I was wounded but …

—p.163 The Creature (149) by Sarah Resnick