childhoodkeepsakes
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Am I my brother's keeper? (opens the original)
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There is something strangely human about Cain.Maybe it is because we have always been afraid of him. We have been taught to see him as the first murderer, the first sinner, the brother who could not control his anger. He is the warning. The example. The person we point to when we want to separate ourselves from the darkness that exists within us.But I have always wondered what it would feel like to be Cain before he became Cain. Before the earth knew his name as a curse. Before his brother’s blo
You were a prayer, not a promise. (opens the original)
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The hardest part in loving someone is always watching them leave; at least that’s what I thought it was, but it isn’t.The hardest part is realizing they were gone long before they walked away.There is a peculiar kind of heartbreak that comes from loving someone who exists more vividly in your imagination than they ever did in reality. Not because they lied to you, necessarily, but because your love was so desperate to find permanence that it filled every silence with poetry, every inconsistency
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