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"I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Distance, Relationship, Isolation, Love

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"I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us."

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