A Few Ways To Say “I Love You” 1/5

Say it aloud to no one in particular for practice, just to see how it feels. Let its syllables play on your tongue until you think you have it just right; memorize the inflection and the tone and the pitch of your three-word speech. Compare it to the noise you eventually hear when you announce it to something other than an empty room. Someday you will know how strange, how frightening the words sound when you have an audience of one, how unprepared you’ll be to hear them escape from your mouth, how those words are all at once familiar and foreign. No amount of practice will prepare you for that.

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