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“the occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart. it was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.”

“‘you’ll always be sad about this,’ mia said softly. ‘but it doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice. it’s just something that you have to carry.’”