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'No One Compares to My Sexy Ex'

When you condemn your truest desires, you become numb to the world.

Heather Havrilesky
Jul 01, 2020
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Glass and Shells (1990) by Janet Fish

Dear Polly, 

I feel like everyone is withholding the truth from me. What are they withholding? The truth that everyone settles for the partner that they marry. 

I believe this lie because I can’t seem to get over a man who broke my heart. We met three years ago, and it was as if he was sculpted for me: smart, sexy, cha…

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