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To all the boys who dreamt of being loved by a woman —

a woman who’d hold him when the world forgot him,

who’d step into his darkness and still choose to stay.

A woman who’d make his life bearable just by breathing beside him.

A woman who could hear the storms in his silence,

who’d never mould him into someone he isn’t,

and love him — fiercely, painfully, entirely — for the man he is.”