“With My All”

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By the second month I had the relationship memorized. Not him – I want to be precise about the distinction. I was still learning him, still finding the edges of a person who revealed himself slowly, partly because he was genuinely private and partly because he did not have a strong habit of volunteering things….

We didn’t have a conversation about what we were. I want to be clear that this was not an oversight or an avoidance – it simply didn’t come up, because the thing we were was already apparent to me and I assumed it was therefore apparent to Damian. We were together. We had been together…

The shoes were the first thing I noticed. This is not because I am a person who thinks about shoes particularly. I am a person who thinks about people, and the shoes told me something about the person – specifically, that he was a man who had purchased footwear at some point in the recent…

I should probably tell you that this story has a point. It does, technically, though I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t notice the point while I was inside the story. I noticed it afterward, which is a very me thing to do – the noticing arriving slightly late, in the calm aftermath, when I…