Learning That the Love of My Life Was Just a Lesson on Life

I thought I found The One, but I was wrong.

I thought I found The One, but I was wrong.

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I was never the kind of person to fall in love easily. I was far too guarded for that. The three little words that seemed so simple for everyone else to say weren’t simple for me at all. I could tell my family I loved them. I told my friends all the time. Yet, saying those wor…