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Things don’t get better just because you want them to.

Susane Colasanti

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Susane Colasanti
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 1
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New Jersey
United States
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When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.
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The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
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Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.
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Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.
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