I stand quietly outside the coffee shop where I stood with you only five days ago. I look in through the front windows and see a couple about our age standing and conversing.
They look at one another with nothing but pure bliss and awe in their eyes. I can remember the feelings that flooded my body as I stood there with you: hope, excitement, comfort, safety.
I remember feeling so incredibly grateful to feel anything at all that evening. I was so used to feeling nothing but numb for the months prior.
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