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Pick the shared language of the friendship: playful, fierce, quiet, long-distance, newly repaired, or built across many years.
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by The Night Voice · 11 lines
Beautiful is not what light does to your face. It is what you do with light:
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 10 lines
She has a key to my house and uses it mostly when I cannot:
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 10 lines
Here is a wish for the hallway: shoes that come home safely. For the kitchen:
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 11 lines
We called it the spare room, as if space were waiting for instructions.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 11 lines
She took the photograph so everyone else was in it. Later I found her reflection
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 12 lines
No one becomes family at the signing of a card. It happens slowly:
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 12 lines
At the long table we lend each other lipstick, chargers, courage,
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