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Does Right Person, Wrong Time Exist? - Emilie Mendham

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I’ve got one of those migraines that can only be targeted by a concoction of painkillers, a 5pm nap and a prayer to something I’m not sure I believe in. I wake up to see a text from a friend - it’s a screenshot of an ex situationships instagram story hardlaunching his very new girlfriend. I put a pillow back over my head. I like to think I’m a quite healed person nowadays. Someone that wouldn’t compare myself to another girl - but I find a remnant drag in my stomach as I wonder why I wasn’t good enough when he’d known me for years and her for a few weeks. My friends offer the kind of advice…

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