ANDROMEDA Flashcards

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I had to burn the last letter I wrote you.

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It was cruel, but there was something luminous about its violence. It would have hurt you.

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It was cruel, but there was something luminous about its violence. It would have hurt you.

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That’s why I burned it. I didn’t want to hurt you.

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That’s why I burned it. I didn’t want to hurt you.

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I just wanted you to know that I was capable of harming you back.

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I just wanted you to know that I was capable of harming you back.

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That I could harness my pain to use the exact words that would hurt you most. Like you did to me.

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That I could harness my pain to use the exact words that would hurt you most. Like you did to me.

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The difference is that I didn’t do it.

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The difference is that I didn’t do it.

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The difference is, even as I thought about doing it, all I really wanted was to hug you and make you feel better…

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The difference is, even as I thought about doing it, all I really wanted was to hug you and make you feel better…

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Yesterday was another luminous day.

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Yesterday was another luminous day.

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I put on my dress. My ‘go-find-you-when-I-can’t-find-you’ dress. And I walked the streets you’ve walked…or will walk.

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I put on my dress. My ‘go-find-you-when-I-can’t-find-you’ dress. And I walked the streets you’ve walked…or will walk.

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Every now and then, I’d think it was a funny sort of miracle I never found you. And I walked like I was sharing a secret you’ll never know.

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Every now and then, I’d think it was a funny sort of miracle I never found you. And I walked like I was sharing a secret you’ll never know.

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But what if it’s true? What if you don’t care where I walk?

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But what if it’s true? What if you don’t care where I walk>?

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What if you don’t care whether or not I’m alive or dead? What act of love is the appropriate response to that?

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What if you don’t care whether or not I’m alive or dead? What act of love is the appropriate response to that?

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What love is it, that keeps on loving someone who doesn’t care whether or not you even exist?

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What love is it, that keeps on loving someone who doesn’t care whether or not you even exist?

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That’s what I asked myself yesterday, as I searched for you.
The way you search for a street you don’t know, in a city you’ve never been in.

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That’s what I asked myself yesterday, as I searched for you.
The way you search for a street you don’t know, in a city you’ve never been in.

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A man came up to me. A young man. And he said, “Can I tell you something?”.

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A man came up to me. A young man. And he said, “Can I tell you something?”.

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“Yes”, I said. “You’re so beautiful.”

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16
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“Yes”, I said. “You’re so beautiful.”

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He’ll never know it’s the saddest he’s ever made anyone feel.

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He’ll never know it’s the saddest he’s ever made anyone feel.

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I thanked him and ran straight to the first bar I could find, so I could cry in the bathroom.

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I thanked him and ran straight to the first bar I could find, so I could cry in the bathroom.

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I looked at myself in the mirror.

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I looked at myself in the mirror.

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And I felt the weight of all those times when I’d look at myself and see nothing but your absence.

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And I felt the weight of all those times when I’d look at myself and see nothing but your absence.

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Maybe that’s what It means to love someone who doesn’t care whether or not you even exist…

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Maybe that’s what It means to love someone who doesn’t care whether or not you even exist…

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You look yourself in the mirror, and all you see is their absence.