i teach them to love
for the women after me.
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"... you're the kind of girl who teaches you how to love the first time around-"
"-but the one they never settle down with?"
"yeah."
"why?"
"because you give it to them. love, i mean. and you give it all. i've seen it. you're the girl their mom will ask about until they propose to whoever. you'll lay the blueprint for how they 'ought to be loved. maybe even the one who got away. you don't give up. but you're too safe. or too good."
"or not good enough."
"you're the kind of girl to fall for while you're young."
"what if i don't want to be anymore?"
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"honest conversations" series
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