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But I’d found over and over in s were the unknowns It hy I liked to travel sonew people You never kneas going to be so

I illing to take the risk

Maybe I would find so I really liked

Someone I really liked

So far, I was pretty sure I’d spent more time with Shawn than any other woman asn’t a close friend or coworker And we’d spent approximately all that time sober

I liked her

And the more time I spent with her, the more I liked her

That said so, didn’t it?

I’d pro to do what felt good, what felt right, what brought ht in the darkness

Even if whatever that thing—or person—was, scaredlasting, soe the trajectory of my life

It was a lot

And I think I was a little s and sensations and questions this whole situation brought up

Sure, I’d had cold and distant parents who, I was convinced, only had one But I’d ht h to see many people I cared about find love and fall happily into it So the situation n concept either

The ht woman, the more I liked it Not to settle down, per se I didn’t believe I would ever be the settling down sort But it would be nice to find soo on adventures with, someone to sharesoain had souess a part of me had never stopped to think how empty that felt, how it sort of disconnected me from the world more than exposed me to it

I thought that Shaould be a really interesting traveling partner So long as there was coffee wherever ent and she didn’t have to suffer the indignity of eating tooand not overly particular She settled into the cabin with its bare-bones luxuries with the same ease as she had the over-water villa with all the bells and whistles I liked that More than I thought I would

I could seeand fucking our way through countless countries across the globe