Love's Betrayal

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Navigation without the fresh-start brochure.

Betrayal is a map redrawn while you were still living in the old country.

Sleep becomes evidence collection. Dreams subpoena the loss.

Strength, if it appears, is not triumph — it is getting vertical without calling vertical healing.

Fresh start is optional. So is never trusting the same door twice.

Love may lead astray. That is not the same as saying you deserved the detour.

The map still shows the old border.

JV · Dark Heart Labs

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