1 What They Don’t Tell You About Dating a Writer
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They don’t tell you
How much you’ll want them to be in love so you can give them the chance of writing the story that will change everything
How you pray to God daily for the strength to be good
How you fear making mistakes that leave scars, always wondering which antagonist will be modeled after you
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They don’t tell you
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How badly you’ll want to be the king of their story
How you’ll scan every word, every letter, focused on the italics and the bolds,
Trying to analyze what they say
Trying to find the parts of their life that they snuck in
Trying to find the parts of you they snuck in
Cause you’ve heard
That writers always put a part of themselves in their work
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They don’t tell you
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That falling in love with a writer is falling in love with
All the words of the alphabet
Memorizing the rules of the letters
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Each time you take the cover off
Each time you flick the page
Each time you fold the edge to hold your place
Each time you stroke the spine
Each time you lick a finger to flip the page
Each time you breathe in the paper
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They don’t tell you
How you’ll want to know who they are
How you want their heart to be for you
How you want them to write about you softly
To write your name, to write your story
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They don’t tell you
That they’ll have power over you
Their words will have power over you
From their mouth or the pen
They’ll have power over your mind
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What they don’t tell you about dating a writer could fill up a book, but will end with this line.
