Sniffling into my pillow, I waited for the hole in my heart to stop stabbing me with pain. I waited to not feel like my life was over. That's all I felt, though… that everything was over.

—S.C. Stephens in Effortless

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Some scared, insecure part of me had known we wouldn't make it… so I'd savored him.

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I wanted to forgive him for everything, but I couldn't. I didn't trust him.

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History

29 Mar 2017 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Sniffling into my pillow, I waited for the hole in my heart to stop stabbing me with pain. I waited to not feel like my life was over. That's all I felt, though…that everything was over.