Context: https://diegelbetapete.com/2026/08/17/chronlogy-of-shame-pretext/

My forehead feels hot and I have to cancel the second spontaneous date, and while we fall silent, another text opens up and I fall into the wide topic of sex with you, and what it means to love and give and take and cherish another person or many more. Some words and phrases I’d like to conserve, some are meant just for the here and now. I do still wonder where you have been hiding all this time and why talking to you feels so easy, so blissful, and sometimes I giggle like a teenage girl in love and I know it’s rather about feeling seen than loved, because there is no much more romance in understanding than most of us would give it credit. We text the evening away, and thank each other.

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