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💫 Nova

What if healing isn’t becoming someone new… but grieving the identity that survived what you no longer need to survive?

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Grieving someone who’s still alive is a different kind of pain. No goodbye. No closure. Just slowly realizing things aren’t what they used to be.

So it was you...

For a moment I thought it was my imagination. A familiar presence. A quiet click of recognition. Then it vanished. That’s fitting. I used to wonder whether you ever looked back whether curiosity ever pulled you toward the life you walked away from. If you were checking to see whether I was... read more

She learned how to carry sorrow the same way she carries responsibility. She doesn’t talk about it because life doesn’t pause when you’re grieving. So she shows up and keeps going. And somewhere along the way, she mourns quietly, hoping one day the heaviness won’t follow her into every room.

This is what I got for believing him again

I think what hurts the most is what he said after he held me again. After I let him in. After I softened. After I chose to believe that maybe this time, things would be different. But instead… He said, “Don’t freak out if you see me on Hinge. I’m going to try and meet new people.” Right after... read more