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Reflection on Friendship
Alliance without the forever brochure.
Friendship is a reflection you cannot always flattering-angle.
Trust is built in boring hours — rides to the airport, truth told when kindness would lie, silence that is not punishment.
Brotherhood without performance. Sisterhood without audition.
Lifetime defined is too tidy. Accurate is the thread still holding after the year you were not lovable.
The helping hand is not charity. It is reciprocity with memory attached.
The thread still holds one frayed edge.
JV · Dark Heart Labs