when we couldn't be we, when us couldn't be us, they looped a string of words from him to her, her to him, finally entwining …

Hell    Get familiar with me now. As if an accessory before the fact. You are helping me with the moral crime of what all will see. …

no need to validate this

On the verge of becoming an adult, struggling with the fact that life is about to hit me.

23/F