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  • Writer's pictureÖzlem Özkan

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He looked at me.

He almost started to talk.

He did not.

Holding back was safe, he thought.

At least he knew what not talking made him feel like.

He never knew that when he would talk he did not need to feel safe anymore.


-ÖÖ


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