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“it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.” quote by Michelle Tea — Download Open image

“it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.”

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“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood…

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