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Fiction #6: You Cannot Love in Pieces.
August 29, 2007I keep telling you this: you can’t love in pieces. You can’t love in pieces because people are made whole. They’re not made in halves, or quarters. You cannot pick the parts to like or discard the parts you hate. You cannot love four pieces of me and then loathe the rest.
You don’t believe that, however. You think we are made of gaping holes and detachable parts. So, I gave you my heart and told you: here, take this piece of me. Keep it safe and treat it kindly because the good Lord knows I’m careless, fickle, and self-destructive, and maybe if you hold on to it, there would be at least one part of me out there that’s whole, alive, and unhurt.
I could be a whole universe if I try. You love in pieces, however, so it wouldn’t matter how many parts of myself I give you. You will never be able to love me whole.
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