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“It is in the broken places where the lights get in.”
Maddie Dawson,
Matchmaking for Beginners
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IMAGINE diving on a cliff for the first time even if you live around the area where it stood. You look down on the rocks that await your fall and the clashing waves that make its roar up the rocky terrain push and pull you with their force. You stood on your bare feet, on your bare skin, with nothing but a small piece of swimming garment, a rush of adrenaline, and a nervous system that reminds you of fight-or-flight.
As I inhaled and exhaled before knocking on the door, my nervous system completely ruled.
This is fight.
Upon making my presence known with three knocks on the wooden white door, Vanthor Gu let me in with a smile and the vellichor of the books that laid
