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Jay Myser's avatar

All those people who pretend to know what it means to feel something. And then this comes along. Utter ruin and beautiful vulnerability. Thank you so much for sharing.

Candy Downs's avatar

Thank you for seeing me Jay ♥️

Ben's avatar

You’ve smashed it again ♥️

Candy Downs's avatar

Oh Ben! My bestie ♥️

France Pinzon • literary speck's avatar

I believe your friends know, even if you don’t tell them.

Also 🥺❤️‍🩹

Candy Downs's avatar

You know. I love you ♥️

Mahmoud Owies's avatar

A post a post a post!!!!!! A post!!!! A POST!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Charlotte Tracy Clarke's avatar

This one makes me hurt for you. Truth telling is the only way to somehow drive through it, and not around it. But it is not easy to lay open to the never ending feelings which surround this loss. One day I hope this is just a memory but today is not that day...

Candy Downs's avatar

You are so right! Writing helps me when a wave crashes around me. ♥️

Also…I miss you so much!! I can’t wait to come back 🥂🌴☀️

razorsedge5055's avatar

Sending you a virtual hug.

Candy Downs's avatar

I’ll take it friend ♥️

Abbey Wade's avatar

Whew. Babe! I’m catching up on you now (clearly). And what a stunning piece of your beautiful heart you just offered here. Love you

Candy Downs's avatar

Love you 🌸

Marlana's avatar

I’m honestly lost for words reading this. My heart hurts for you, and I can feel the weight you’re carrying here. Thank you for trusting us with this it matters, even when it’s heavy.✨

Candy Downs's avatar

Love you my friend ♥️

Mother Hood's avatar

MY HEART 💔💔💔😭

Candy Downs's avatar

♥️♥️♥️

small victories's avatar

Incredible, Candy. Just incredible. I understand this with my entire DNA.

Candy Downs's avatar

Mike, thank you. That means a lot to me ♥️

small victories's avatar

I found myself thinking about someone recently that I haven't thought about at all, really, until the last few days. Your words really connected. ♡

Candy Downs's avatar

I bet they’re thinking about you too.

small victories's avatar

She has been. She's made small but impossible to ignore micro-contacts.

No doubt he's been thinking about you as well. It's very difficult to just.. shut it off.

The hurt lasts, but it does dull to an eventful pinprick less and less frequently.

Warmest of hugs, Candy.

Candy Downs's avatar

Sending love back to you Mike ♥️

I am so happy and surrounded by love in my life. When I think of him I send him the warmest thoughts and hope he feels loved in his life as well.

A privilege to have loved someone so much, no matter the outcome. Being able to write about it and process it here with friends, like you, has been a privilege all its own.

small victories's avatar

I couldn't agree more. I bear her no ill will. In fact I hope she finds happiness and peace and love.

Some people never find love that deeply, strongly; all-encompassingly. I'm honored and humbled that I've found it more than once. I'm elated that I found it at its fullest and fiercest with Erica. I have never loved someone that powerfully before. Everyone should be so lucky.

Simply you calling me a friend is also a privilege. It means everything. Everyone should be so lucky. ♡

Candy Downs's avatar

Same here. This piece fell into my head yesterday, I could feel him in the air.

Leonardo Wassilie's avatar

Days go by like seconds. Is a heart too broken to mend? In the end, life goes on, the beauty to behold; the gold of nature’s exquisite beauty in gloom. Yet the bloom of the flower is a mold, shaped by the Will to express the deepest depths of her soul.

Candy Downs's avatar

This is gorgeous ✨

Leonardo Wassilie's avatar

I felt your emotions

Candy Downs's avatar

You always do ♥️

Mark ✌️💙🫂's avatar

That hurts. Sorry that it still hurts

Candy Downs's avatar

Thank you Mark ♥️

Chris Keller's avatar

F FF. you know, but i am saying it anyways, you are too good for him.

Chris Keller's avatar

Always CD.

Chris Keller's avatar

but I loved the poem. Fire

Candy Downs's avatar

Thank you CK 🙏🏻

Tom Van Valkenburgh's avatar

The feelings we just can’t help but feel are sometimes the fucking worst.

I para-know who this is about from reading your earlier pieces about him and man, that musta been some pow’ful attraction.

Candy Downs's avatar

Thanks for reading Tom 🩵 it was a doozy.

Aidan Alan's avatar

Beautiful Candy

Candy Downs's avatar

Thank you Aidan ♥️