“I love her because she steals my socks,
I love her because when I find her in them they never match,
I love her because they are too big
and they grey part for the heel sits far too high
but she doesn't notice.
I love her because she wears them to sleep and one always falls off
and she wakes up in the night and can never find it,
and her foot is cold.
That's why I love her.”
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“I will follow you, my love, to the edge of all our days, to our very last tomorrows.”
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“The hardest step we all must take is to blindly trust in who we are.”