Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid the question. We hedge. We protect ourselves, oftentimes afraid of vulnerability and the possibility of it being used against us. We talk ourselves out of things before they have the opportunity to hurt us; that makes sense, doesn’t it? When you’re young, the world has already handed you enough loss to know that love and grief tend to travel together. It’s the inevitable that everyone is familiar with, and one of the very few things that every human being has in common and wants to avoid at any cost.
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