It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.

Brit Bennett
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  1. I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

  2. I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.

  3. And so I just kept writing to myself.

  4. We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have...

  5. Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

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