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I was in awe of you;
I fell for you.
I made a conscious decision to cherish you,
to protect you – to nurture you.

I still hear those utterances;
Weirdly enough, I use them too.
What a way to flip the script,
because I can call you FAT
and not want to disappear into myself.

I can hold my pot belly in both hands
and feel a love that is yet to be given to me,
by another.

I can move and watch my thighs jiggle,
and have that be the most beautiful image to me- a real life giphy.
And honey,
no one can throw us off against each other anymore,
Because we are, and we chose to be.

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