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The Version of Myself He Knew
Some friendships don't announce themselves.
They arrive quietly, between shared tiffin boxes, unfinished math homework, poems scribbled in the margins of notebooks, and long walks home that feel longer than they are.
She was the topper.
He was the backbencher.
They were never a thing, at least not the kind the world knows how to name.
From secret conversations in college corridors to bus-stop meetings between different lives, from borrowed poems to words that sparked the birth of a writer, this is the story of five years that shaped a girl into someone she never knew she could become.
He walked her home when her body ached.
He noticed the dresses no one else praised.
He worried in silence when he couldn't cross the line to help.
He gave her words when she didn't know she needed them.
And one day, she did something, something quiet, something unexpected, that shaped her, healed her in a way no one expected... not even herself.
The Version of Myself He Knew is a bittersweet coming-of-age memoir about platonic love, unnamed jealousy, the power of words, and the versions of ourselves that exist only in someone else's memory.
This is not a love story.
This is a becoming.
And this is the version of herself that only he knew.