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Butterfly Bruises


Mat gives me flowers and I get butterflies. He holds my hand like he’ll never let me go. His eyes say I am his. Mat gives me bruises and I know he’s sorry. It’s because, he says, he loves me too much. My hand holds too weak, my eyes say too little, and he forgets that I am his.
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