“before you even finish the sentence,

the kind who will sit with a silence

and try to protect herself from every possible meaning inside it,

and people will call it too much

because they do not understand what it means

to care so deeply that your mind refuses to rest,

but i have watched her think herself into exhaustion

and still come back gentle,

still come back kind,

still choose understanding over anger,

and i swear there is something so devastating

about loving a woman

whose softness survives even her own storms.”

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