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Sometimes the people who have known us the longest are holding on to a version of us that no longer exists. The loneliness isn't that they don't care, it's that they haven't caught up with who we are now.
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Sometimes the people who have known us the longest are holding on to a version of us that no longer exists. The loneliness isn't that they don't care, it's that they haven't caught up with who we are now.
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