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100 Words on Love, by Matt Clapper
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She told me yesterday that when she left me she walked back into a ring of fire that included her ex-boyfriend and a needle dipped in heroin. I saw it coming weeks before that, so I did the “fade-away” – less and less communication until it was almost non-existent. She wanted love, but I could not love the lie in her eyes. James Allen said, “The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
Fear kept my love from ever leaving its harbor. Love the addict. Hate the disease.
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