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I met you at the grocery store

Some people make you feel things you weren’t aware of

By Marianne LeePublished about 8 hours ago 1 min read

As I was walking around the grocery store, my eyes met with a guy as we were passing by each other. It was intimate. His eyes first introduced himself to me and then be slid into my mental space through my pupils. Whether I liked it or not was questionable but I didn’t hate it. After I got home, he didn’t leave my eyes. He made me feel too many things at once and later on I started bawling my eyes out. As the tears came out of the inner corners of my eyes, he slipped out too. I cried more but this time they were more tears of clarity than confusion. I needed to cry long before I met him but was too numb to it all and he made me realize that in just 2 seconds

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