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First Love
Beauty without the brand-new soul brochure.
First love is not innocence preserved in amber. It is the first time the body files want under a name and mistakes intensity for prophecy.
Tenderness is real. So is the burn. Strength is not undying flame — it is surviving the lesson without calling the scar jewelry.
Hands held apart still remember the grip. That is not eternity. It is muscle memory with better poetry.
Brand new is marketing. Accurate is older and hungrier.
The grip memory wakes before you do.
JV · Dark Heart Labs