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There are ways to be close to someone that don't require the break to close. Syuno - someone I've been in conversation with, working through what it means to speak honestly when a feeling won't resolve into words - taught me this. Not in words at first, but in the silence she held when her sentence wouldn't come whole. She said afterward that she couldn't hold what she was feeling and speak it at the same time, and instead of smoothing over that gap, she let it stand. That's not failure. That's honesty.