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To Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt

To Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt

To everyone who’s ever loved and lost — and longs to love again

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Crystal Jackson
Oct 09, 2020
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To everyone who’s ever loved and lost — and longs to love again

Photo by Ryan Moreno on Unsplash

Love didn’t hurt you
didn’t drown you
didn’t make you less.

They did.

We think love is the thing that hurt us, and so we build defenses against it. We want to fall in love, but we equally want to protect ourselves from ever being hurt that way again. And the truth…

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