I wasn't looking for anyone anymore. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/9ed3e0/620x0/1/0/2024/11/24/kuk0basjh59togpq70undkya5m2zfa8lsdqjy7nc.jpg" alt = "older pair @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (154,136,115.1)" > < p > I had my life & ndash; calm, orderly, lonely, but relatively tame. After a divorce, I didn't want to let anyone into my world. I learned to drink morning coffee in silence and return to an empty apartment in the evening without regret.

< p > until kt this small, estate & ndash; I met him.

< p > tall, well -kept, with Szymborska's book in hand and a look that stopped at mine. He smiled, he said something brilliant about poetry. I answered. The conversation dragged on to coffee. Coffee for a walk. Walk for dinner.

< P >Suddenly I felt like a girl. I laughed loudly, wore dresses, painted my lips red. He looked at me as if he saw everything that others didn't notice. M & oacute; wił: & ampquo; I breathe with you < p > said his marriage is just a formality. That they have been sleeping in separate rooms for years. That they have long been parting, but not on paper yet. That I know me with me. < p > I believed.

< p > We were together for almost a year. We had our rituals, places and memories. The moment came when I asked: & and what next ? & & ampquo;. He smiled, kissed my hand. He said: “Bdquo; still a bit. I have to do it at the good time. I do not want to hurt her &.

< p > Week p & oacute; The phone was silent. Messages without answers.

< p > after a few days he sent only one:

< p > & & oacute; I can't finish it. Sorry. < p > I read this sentence a hundred times. & AMP; BDQUO; WR & AMP; Oacute; So he had a place to come back. He had someone who did not throw him out of his heart. And I ? I was just a stop. Breath. Shadow between his former and present.

< p > I was alone again. Only now more & ndash; Because I already knew how love to be. And how it hurts when someone takes this love from you without a word of explanation.

< p > I don't regret that I loved. But I regret that I trusted.

< p > because I fell in love with fifty. And he was & oacute; to his wife. or only to disappoint ?

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Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116