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one of the great gifts God has given us is memory

by @abecedarian

and knowing this, he slow steals it away, all fine, remembering all those details, slow, then steady, then regularized, and finally, not caring, just knowing what is needed, worth it, desired, and prioritizing the heart and heads emotions, to process our interactions in to a single weave of multi colored fabric, one day silk, next cotton, even scratchy wool serves a purpose, but it is the skin, the skin that notches that sparking, after talking, when you them truly, for the first time, and you say hey! you part your hair down the middle, and so engrossed, did not notice, how it falls just over each corner's eye, and that is so engaging, so teasingly attractive I, smitten, suddenly struck silent, I remember the why, I remember the very instant, the exact first, the opening bursting, when our eyes met, and we smiled exactly the same way, halfway, opening both thinking we could be, we could be, we could be a be...
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Oct 30, 2025
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my memory of the instant instance is indelible, you were late, soaking wet...

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