Love Me For Me — Or Not At All

I’ve come out of one too many relationships that felt like a house on fire.

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When the smoke clears at a relationship’s end, few of us are left unmarked by the fire. Some emerge stronger- reeking of smoke, clothes singed, but somehow determined to take up a torch and move forward with the light. Others find themselves wholly changed, altered into a different form for having been so close to the flam…