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'My Crush Doesn't Love Me!'
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'My Crush Doesn't Love Me!'

You won't accept real love into your life until you stop hiding from yourself.

Heather Havrilesky
May 02, 2022
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Horse’s Skull on Blue (1930) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

Well I made the classic lesbian mistake of confessing my feelings for a close personal friend and she does not feel the same way. It’s a tale as old as time and one that I am brutally re-living, it seems, for the umpteenth time.

I waited. I journaled. I talked to my other friends who don’t know h…

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