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your heartbeat is still the most beautiful thing I have ever heard
Summer started innocently enough—sitting upfront with you in the backseat, our friends oblivious to what we had done that past winter to stay warm
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desi wedding culture is toxic
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attention is an addiction
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marrying a white man doesn’t make you less cultured
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there are no lovers that were not first friends
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