put your ear to the speaker
and choose love or sympathy, but never both
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She looks into his eyes and realizes two things.
How much she misses seeing him look at her like that,
and that he is a good person.
And she wants him to always be that good person.
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"Bat di kita sumasagot pag tumatawag ako?" He asks, half playful, half earnest. There is no anger or virulence or hurt.
She lets her lips curl into a resigned smile. "Wag mo na itanong."
He laughs and looks away.
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to the love i left my conscience pressed, between the pages of the bible in the drawer
what did it ever do for me I say