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aaron starmer
friend Tess, but the last text that comes in is from a number you don’t recognize. It says: You were there for both of them. That must have been invigorating. Not scary. Not sad. Not difficult. Invigorating. You should be creeped out, but you’re not. Because it’s the first time that someone gets it right. Both explosions were exactly that. Invigorating. A terrible thing to admit, but it’s in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if they can be terrible too, then maybe they can be vulnerable too, caring too, and all the things that you are and hope to be. You fall in love, which is the stupidest thing you can ever do.