What Love Used To Look Like
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Last published Tue, Oct 25, 2022
"What Love Used To Look Like" is a collection of short prose, poems, and contemplations about love, hurt, disappointments, and brokenness anyone experiences or has experienced at least once in their short lives. The collection intends to show the different variations, extremities, and tolerance of losses Sage, the writer, has gone through in the past years, in which recent ones have always been the most difficult to forget and write about. One can only hope to find solace in these words.
We all have loves we wish we never get to have or learn, but isn't its inevitability indeed one of its fascinating mysteries? Sage peels through the layers of her first love and the events that had occurred in her four-year relationship.
Trying to forget is hard but remembering what love used to look like after all the pain is so much harder.
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