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Distance makes the heart grow fonder, they say.
Fiercer
Faster
Forgetting panic and pain and punishment until
Only good persists.

Proximity makes the heart remember
Renew
Rekindle
Reviving hate and heartache and helplessness until
Only awful remains

Or

Teaches us to resist
To speak
To act out love
To require love
To expect others to treat us as
Our full self, whole self—
Worth time, energy, respect—

Never to be trampled under the façade of concern that
Compels conformity
Again.
 
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