Status Updates From Rootless

“I was trying to be someone else. Or at least I wasn’t ready to be who he needed to be me to be. I couldn’t— she feels a pinch in her throat. And now it might be too late”. ‘Then do what you need do here and get back to him. If I had the smallest chance in the world to be with the person I love, I’d take it

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“Sam knows she won’t come near him yet, and he suppresses the instinct to go to her, draw her into his arms and rock her until she’s emptied of all her tears. Instead he tries ro see her anew, draw a distinct separation between how he’s always seen her and who he now knows her to be, whoever that is. Maybe I never know you at all, Sam thinks

“He draws neat circles over the ghosts of old scars from another life, another time, and he stays like that as the car eases into motion, as if some part of him is afraid she’ll disappear into thin air or throw herself out of the car at the next red light. He won’t lose her again.”