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“That night at the beach,” Mabel says. “And the days after, until school ended and all through the summer . . .”
“Yeah?”
“I thought I’d never love another person.”
“I thought that, too.”
“I guess we should have known better.”
“I don’t know about that,” I say.”

this is really important to me btw

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”

28 mins btw since i still care about numbers

put this on my want to read on jun 17th 2022 and ofc I just had to start actually reading it when I was in the exact same position as marin here
winter break after first semester core