The first time we broke up, I remember saying— I would never be able to let him go if the person next to him wasn’t me. It sounds like something you’d say in the middle of a quiet obsession. I know that now. But at the time, being with him felt like home. And losing him, felt like losing the only place I could return to. I didn’t see then. Some part of that “home” was built from how he showed up when I was far from my family, and far from my own self. Even when we ended, I still knew I’d meet him again someday. Though now I wonder. Was that knowing, a memory, a wish, or just a prayer in disguise? And when I did meet him again, and then lose him again, I found myself asking: Was loving him something I knew, something I wanted, or something I was still praying for? Was I in love with him, or just with the idea of being with him? Isn’t wanting to be with someone a form of love, too? Why, then, could I never picture a life without him, even if it terrified me while...
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