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Reading my favorite book ever for the 3rd time. Maybe a year ago I decided that this would be the book that would christen my moving to New York City, and here I am, reading in my apartment in New York City ❤️

I think the first chapter of The Happy Years might be my favorite part of the book. If you know you know

the axiom of equality: x = x
this section was excruciating to read the first time and it’s no different this time. Oh my dear Jude, how I wish I could take your pain away.

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”