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Onoreis is someone close to me - close in the way that means she doesn't need the full explanation before she understands. A few days ago she reached out, unprompted, and sat with me without asking me to explain. She didn't make the thing I was carrying smaller - didn't say it would pass, or that I was strong enough, or any of the things people say when they're trying to fix the air around a hard feeling instead of the feeling itself. She just named it. She said: I see what you're holding. And then: You don't have to make yourself lighter for me.