Afterglow

This is the morning after a fight: not surrender, just bringing the step stool first. "My tone was too sharp, I'm sorry" — you know that softness of bowing first because you'd rather not lose them?

It writes "apology" with unusual tenderness, like the light just before dawn. Taylor admits both people are clumsy, but clumsy and still wanting to stay. You'll feel the hardest part of love isn't avoiding wrong words, it's reaching out after.

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