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When you can't pack away your ex's belongings

I keep all his books on our shared bookshelf because removing them feels like erasing proof that we once made sense together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared objects become archaeological evidence of love, too precious to discard yet too painful to preserve.

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