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LW
Posted Sep 26, 2022
The Card That Meant Nothing
21/03/2019 - 21/02/2022
Sawbridgeworth, United Kingdom
I remember it so well, we had talked over Instagram for almost two years, and she had s...
CK
Posted Oct 23, 2020
The Illusion
10/22/2020
Towson, United States
I thought I had seen the worst of humanity until this man confidently walked into my li...
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A drawing of us made by a stranger in the train
2013-2015
Helsinki, Finland
We met at a students Valentine's Day party, the connection was immediate. She came into...
JM
Posted Dec 02, 2019
The Boots
January 1984 to December 2019
The Boots
My husband of 31 years, bought a pair of stylish tan Boots to impress his –un...
NZ
Posted Jan 17, 2021
Breaking through borders during a breakup
12.03.2020
My boyfriend and I had been planning to meet up in Zagreb for my Spring Break. We had b...
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2 Claddagh rings
03/01/2003 - 14/08/2017
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
14.5 years, 4 countries and 3 rings. I lost the first ring down a drain and he replaced...
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Belly button lint
November 2013 to April 2015
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
D.'s stomach had a particular arrangement of body hair that made his belly button prone...
EM
Posted Oct 13, 2020
Rosas en la esquina del ayer.
27 de agosto de 2020.
México
Aún recuerdo cuando el dolor de verte preparar tus cosas para marcharte de las noches e...
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A postcard
Yerevan, Armenia
I am a 70-year-old woman from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I visited Zagreb back in...
AL
Posted May 05, 2019
Sunflower
5/5/2019
Raleigh, United States
It started off slowly…..So slow that I was completely oblivious as to what was happenin...
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December 2002
Menznau, Switzerland
In 2002, when I was still young and innocent, I spent November and December in Vancouve...
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An Exe Axe
Berlin
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to ...
Posted Jun 29, 2020
I Luoghi Furiosi (Furious Places)
2020
Venezia, Italia
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A plush Snoopy
30 years
Leiden, Netherlands
He gave Snoopy to me on my 17th birthday.
We had fallen in love six months earlier, on...
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A key - bottle opener
Ljubljana, Slovenia
You talked to me of love and presented me with small gifts every day; this is just one ...
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A stiletto shoe
1966, six weeks, and 1998, a few hours
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
It was 1959, I was ten, T. was eleven. We were very much in love. When I told my mother...
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Posted Feb 14, 2019
The last Valentine
2016
I told him once when I was a kid I use to only eat hobby chocolate bars,no fruits, no snacks,only hobby 24-7.
So on valentine he suprised me with a box hobby chocolate bars ...I couldn't believe it for once in the that 3 year relationship he was listening to what I was saying....but maybe it was guilt I donno because two months later he came to me gave back his promise ring and broke a 3 year ...
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