"'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.

After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Just because it perished?
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~












After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Just because it peri...
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