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Enduring Bonds
Friendship as treaty, not eternal bliss.
Friendship is not a slogan. It is trust filed over years — the hand extended when romance would have been easier to explain.
Brotherhood, sisterhood: words for alliances that survive awkwardness and do not keep score in public.
Enduring does not mean painless. It means the bond absorbs the invoice and stays anyway.
Eternal bliss is declined. Accurate is showing up with the takeout after the breakup.
The group chat still pings at midnight.
JV · Dark Heart Labs