"Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
~ Diana Gabaldon ~












I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...
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