The Wild Love Story I Yearn to Live

Belinda Tucker
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

What can I say, I love a good love story. I make no apologies for that. I guess I want to believe in the kind of love that lasts beyond the courtship and honeymoon period after the newness of it all wears off. I want a person who loves me when it is just the two of us, sleepy and blinking at each other in the early morning hours ripe with cotton mouth and hair spiked up in rebellion.

As a self-professed romantic, I am susceptible to expecting too much from another person. I expect my beloved to see past my flaws and simply accept me for the charming person I am, the…

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