THE FOOTNOTES OF A GHOST
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Last published Wed, Mar 5, 2025
*"Some wounds don't bleed. They fester in silence, tucked beneath a smile, buried in the marrow of your bones. You don't feel them until you're hollow, until the echoes of what was scrape against your ribs like rusted nails.
I used to think heartbreak was loud-shattering glass, slammed doors, screaming into the void. But real heartbreak? It's quiet. It's the weight in your chest at 3 a.m., the way your own name starts to feel foreign, the way mirrors stop reflecting someone you recognize.
He was here. Then he wasn't. And somehow, the absence of him is heavier than his presence ever was. I am not healing. I am dissolving."*
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