Learning the Difference Between Codependency and Love

Falling in love with an addict left me with an addiction all my own

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We return, pigeons and salmon, to the places we abandoned and to the places where we were abandoned. Our secrets, each of them, years’ worth, spill out of our mouths like rubies and other precious stones. Doesn’t matter if there is no one around to hear our…