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Never Again

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

-Anais Nin

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•R O S E C L I N T O N•

I went back to where it happened. I wanted to take away the power of the painful memory for hurt, prove to myself that I could choose to move on. So I took the one I love the most, my best friend, and on that spot we made a great memory, a happy one. Now when my brain goes back there I divert it only to the good memory, the healing one. It's as if I wrote a good story over the top of a bad story, and in time the ink of the bad story fades away until only the good one remains.

But, I happened to do this because I am an adult, how was this small child supposed to do this?

I smiled at him when he introduced his perfect name to me, "That's a perfect name for a tough boy like you." I said, holding his small h