Card tricks.
They're easy: create a diversion, hide something behind your thumb, snap your fingers.
I’ve always been easy. It's not hard to manipulate a girl by a slight of hand. Put her heart out from behind her ear. Tell her she's worth something, just to create a distraction so you can get what you really want.
But you, you were different. Your hands made things disappear: rings and cards and twenty five cent coins,
And things like the way I always felt used and the way I always felt like I was never good enough and the way I always felt insane for wanting something more than distraction.
You weren't a diversion. You were the real thing.