WeWereKindtoEveryonebutEachOther
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We were the couple people called when they needed help. At home we barely spoke, and when we did it was logistics.
It took a stranger asking 'how are you two, really' for the whole thing to fall out of me in a parking lot.
We're rebuilding. Slower than either of us wanted. Honest for the first time in nine years.
A reflection
Who gets the kindest version of you — and who doesn't?
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