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Change, Love

High Tide

February 12, 2013 smirkpretty

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

– Anais Nin, February 1947

So you let go. The sea has its own plans for the both of you.

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