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Given If you’re given to quitting, falling deeply in love isn’t for you. If you’re happier reading about love than falling in love - real love - hot mess love, don’t bother. But if you’ve made yourself steadfast, ready to have your knee fall, and the wind fill your sails and the waves to also treacherously cross your bow, the wind to threaten to snap your masts - if you view apparent failure as a temporary setback, eventually providing a bridge over a what appears to be a deep, black abyss - then fall in love. Deeply in love. Dissolve. Know that you will sometimes feel like you are dying. You will want to give up. Often and Badly. Don’t. You’ll feel like you are trying to salvage an irredeemable mess. You’ll feel like at times that your life is missing a chapter. You’ll misplace your heart, but then again find it. Your friends will ask if those “things you talked about”, that felt so right, were really real. A hundred thoughts will reject your ...