"You have to be okay on your own, I know I am," he said, taking another bite of his maple soaked stack of pancakes, chewing as if the conversation was over."Yeah, but...I'm not so sure people are 'okay' alone. I mean, perhaps 'okay' is all they are, perhaps nothing higher than that."
"No, in order to be good in a relationship, you need to be completely and utterly okay with being alone. You have to be totally happy alone."
"Yeah, but I'm not happy when I'm alone. I don't think I want to be. I think I'm my best self as part of a couple."
"That's ridiculous!" he lowered his eyes into his coffee cup as he took a huge gulp, "You have to be complete on your own to be complete in a relationship."
"Do you?" she asked, truly wondering.
"Yes."
Perhaps he was right, but she always had a sinking suspicion that hearts were really the shape of only half a heart and it took two to make a heart complete.
You're really a great writer, you know that?
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