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Love Comes Before Like
June 16, 2021
I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why he liked me. What he saw in me.
I knew he must have liked something-- anything.
I wondered if he liked everything about me, the way I liked everything about him.
The funny thing is, I didn’t really like everything about him but somehow I still did,
because I loved him.
Perhaps he was the same way.
Perhaps he liked me because he loved me.
Perhaps, sometimes, love comes before like.
© Julia K., Old Tappan, NJ
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Even though you know you're not perfect and you know they're not perfect-- sometimes it doesn't matter. I got a lot of advice on who I should be with and the qualities they should have and supposed red flags. But when it came down to it, none of it mattered. Because even if I didn't like this or that, I loved him so everything else blurred in importance.