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Rod Bell's avatar

Beautiful.

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Sherry Ning's avatar

Thank you!!!

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sarah cucchiara's avatar

i’ll never get over this, it’s so beautiful 🤍🤍🤍

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Sherry Ning's avatar

💗💗💗

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simran's avatar

this is lovely

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Sherry Ning's avatar

💗🫶🏻💗

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Mwyze's avatar

Thank you for always describing these human conditions in a visceral way; elegant, simple, raw, and beautiful. You said it perfectly. You bring tears to my eyes almost every time. Thank you!

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Sherry Ning's avatar

Awww you’re so kind 🥹❤️

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Valerie's avatar

my genius angel ❤️

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Sherry Ning's avatar

Thank u for being part of such a pinch me moment

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molly ⋆。𖦹°⭒˚。⋆'s avatar

you write so beautifully!

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Sherry Ning's avatar

Thank you!

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Tom White's avatar

Beautiful, per usual. A quote that comes to mind: “To love someone is firstly to confess: I’m prepared to be devastated by you.” —Billy-Ray Belcour

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Sherry Ning's avatar

I love rhat

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Caroline Beuley's avatar

Tender Summer baby!! Loved getting a chance to read this again! So beautiful!

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Sherry Ning's avatar

💗 love u

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John Yi's avatar

…over here “just being.” 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Alexia Valentina Ureña's avatar

yeppppppyep yep

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Alex Michael's avatar

I have been trying to write this exact piece for about three months and came nowhere close to this. Wow.

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Sherry Ning's avatar

very glad to hear that 😎

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emily north's avatar

even more gorgeous the second time 🤍🤍🤍

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Sherry Ning's avatar

Love u!! 💗💐

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Sasha's avatar

oh i miss being in love :( you nailed this perfectly though!

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Sherry Ning's avatar

❤️❤️

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Ryan Barry's avatar

When you said, "I want there to be more seconds between the seconds, I want to claw time open, I want to unzip each moment and nestle inside it like Thumbelina in her walnut shell," I felt that.

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Matt H's avatar

So beautiful. Thanks for having the courage to put this piece out there. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt love that strong, but I have been in love.

Congratulations and I hope you fully enjoy the moments.

And also, if I may, understand that this is likely a phase through many relationships pass. The honey-moon phase…

Also the person with who I shared this kind of love, is no longer in a relationship with me. The line about other relationships being a pantomime in Plato’s cave, rung so true for me.

When I was in love, I kinda stopped caring about other relationships.

The thing was, when that relationship ended, I was left with withered friendships and forced to re-enter the mundane world of normal relationships.

Making mundane relationships work is perhaps a skill you don’t want to lose. And depending too much on one person is perhaps risky if the relationship ever ends.

Part of me also knows the pull into this wonderful land and I wonder if I’d actually do anything different if it happened all over again.

Anyway, congratulations on finding this and enjoy the good feelings 😊 I hope its beauty can be made stronger by knowing its impermanence. And I hope sharing my perspective helps you in making the best decisions.

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Saniya P's avatar

I'm madly in love right now. And the last paragraph just was what I needed to hear- Drop everything. Thank you. Lovely writing. Your writing always wakes me up:)

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