champagne problems

The cruelty is its mismatch: one kneels with a ring, the other's heart already left. Haven't you seen (or been) the one who "got proposed to and couldn't smile"?

It writes "letting down kindness" elegant and empty. Taylor uses champagne bubbles for an upper-class, polished heartbreak: not poor, just out of love. You'll sigh — the hardest to refuse is exactly the sincerest.

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