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2021-10-21 04:12:02Opening up takes a great deal of courage. Prying open your rib cage and letting everything out that is locked away hidden in your heart.
Isabella has been in my life for a week. When I knew I was coming home, I thought I would come and lay in my own pool of misery. I never imagined I would meet her and that she would steal the thing that I thought was damaged the most, my heart.
I am so in love with this woman that I cannot see myself living without her. There are things that I still have to tell her, but I think it is time to close the closet; enough skeletons have escaped through these doors
"So out with it, soldier, what do you want to tell me?"
"Argh, it is nothing important, boo."
"Mmm, are you keeping secrets from me, soldier?"
"I just wanted to tell you how crazy I am about you."
"That is one of the oldest ones in the book. Why don't you try that again?"
"I am crazy about you, boo."
"Not even close to believing yo
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