your heart is a prize

If you are a girl and you were raised directly after/during or around the Sexual Revolution,  adults around you scrambled to implore, your virginity is a prize.

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silence

A few weeks or more go by, and then suddenly it hits you.

You have not thought of that person even once.

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spending out

I have long loved and embraced this notion but it does not come easily during difficult moments.

Spending out is pushing outward into the world what you yourself need. When life is a struggle and you are needing so much, that is precisely and ironically and surprisingly the moment that you need to give what you long for.

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