The Only Sin I Committed Was Thinking You Were the Answer

Love may not be the balm everyone needs.

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It was a long time between the spark and the burn when it came to you.

You stayed a stranger, just another face, for what felt like infinite stretches of my life. We waded in and out of each other’s spheres, but I always tried to find it in myself to smile at you (even…