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Francine

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The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

by John M. Gottman

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All the Little Secrets (All the Little Houses, 2)

by May Cobb (Goodreads Author)

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to ...more

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“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships

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“I don’t know if you felt that or not. But it felt like two people kissing after hours of thinking about it. It felt like two people talking after nights of silence. It felt like two people touching after weeks of being numb. It felt like two people facing each other after months of looking away. It felt like two people in love after years of being alone. And it felt like two people meeting each other, after an entire lifetime of not meeting each other.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

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“the flow of humanity passing by reminds me that my problems, however big they might seem at the moment, are dew in an ocean.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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“This moment is not pain, not hysteria, not crying. It is your insides turning to cold stones. It is utter confusion paired with knowing. Gone is the luxury of growing up slowly. So begins the brutal awakening.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

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