When I first saw you, your smile stayed with me.
That was the beginning of everything.

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Our love once felt like a film - New York, nothing in our hands except love and belief.

I trusted you,
and I ran toward you without looking back.

Nearly nine years together, and so many storms.
It was never smooth.

We came from different worlds, and there were moments when loving you felt exhausting,
when I grew tired in ways I couldn't explain.

When trust began to thin, we chose to stay.

For our child, Richie-Roy Aristide For something bigger than us.

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Standing beside you,
I learned what love truly asks of me - who 1 am,
how to endure without disappearing, how to understand without losing myself.

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Even after all the arguments, we are still here.
Because somewhere beneath the noise, we still want our trust to grow deeper, and our love -
however imperfect -
is still reaching for each other.

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Tonight,
I just wanted to leave these words here, exactly as my heart feels them.