LOVE ME LIKE ART
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Jasmine Soyinka likes to avoid things.
People.
Responsibilities.
And most of all, her truest feelings that are buried beneath the debris of her own complicated life. Instead, she replaces it with work. Her heart is buried beneath case files that adorn her messy desk. Her detachment bleeds into every corner of her life with missed calls from her mother, friendships that have turned into check-ins that she answers begrudgingly and a loneliness that creeps along her back.
But, something flickers and arrests her world from its slumber when she meets Imani Crawford in a noisy bar on a Friday night. Imani is passionate, forward and full of enthusiasm that almost feels strange to Jasmine. Her life is not a cautionary tale, she immerses herself in all that life might offer. She is interested in Jasmine in a way no one has been in years. What begins as a tipsy connection built off misunderstanding quickly sparkles into something strange and in bloom in Jasmine's garden.
More human.
More tangible.
More sacred.
Jasmine wants to believe she deserves a boundless love without reproach and without shame but first, she has to learn to stay in the room.
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