You could be so intimate, so familiar with someone’s skin and flesh and spirit, only to wake up one day and… — Akwaeke Emezi
You could be so intimate, so familiar with someone’s skin and flesh and spirit, only to wake up one day and find that it had receded from you, suddenly, like a tide rushing back out into the sea, leaving you with dissolving foam and a damp heart.
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