love
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After a night of bottles, cries, and tiny hands refusing sleep, morning arrives late and no one apologizes for needing it.
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Myst knows nothing about the past; she only knows these hands are gentle, this bed is warm, and closing her eyes here is safe.
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Love did not end in one dramatic moment; it wore down slowly until the sentence finally learned where to stop.
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Every love story ends somehow, but endings do not erase the tenderness, damage, or meaning of what lived before them.
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The hardest part of loving someone is sometimes realizing the love was real even when staying became impossible.
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Time does not fly so much as quietly steal bottles, teeth, first steps, and every version of the babies you thought you had longer to hold.
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Thirteen years of friendship become proof that family can be chosen in hospital rooms, late-night calls, laughter, and showing up.
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Theo’s laugh travels before he does, finding a tired mother wherever she is and making the world feel lighter for a moment.
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Every trail becomes a kingdom when Theo reaches for leaves like stars and turns an ordinary afternoon into an adventure.
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Grief is not only the moment someone leaves; it is every birthday, song, and ordinary Tuesday that keeps carrying the love forward.
Between Bruises & Blooms 